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-   -   August 29, 2006: Cassiopeia A supernova by Hubble (http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=11596)

xoxoxoBruce 08-29-2006 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer
I'm sure other people noticed this but I'll point it out just to be on record. If it's ~10,000 light years from us then the supernova occured 10,300 years ago, we only got the update recently.
Good point, did it happen 300 years ago, or 10,300 years ago? :confused:

Beestie 08-29-2006 06:59 PM
So when does the shock wave hit? I'm not letting go of this tree till then. Except to go to the bathroom.

JayMcGee 08-29-2006 07:20 PM
9th is almost right.
we saw the light 300 years ago..... and it's 10,000 light years away...


so the biggish bang was 9,700 years ago.

Clodfobble 08-29-2006 08:05 PM
You have that backwards, Jay. The picture above is how it looks now to us, i.e. the image is 10,000 years old. When the explosion itself was 10,000 years old, it was sometime in the 1700s for us. So the explosion (which we have no picture of, but if we did) happened roughly 10,300 years ago.

footfootfoot 08-29-2006 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Beestie
So when does the shock wave hit? I'm not letting go of this tree till then. Except to go to the bathroom.
You are fucking hilarious. I'm going to glean a beestie beastiary and find a publisher.

footfootfoot 08-29-2006 08:52 PM
how soon is now?

footfootfoot 08-29-2006 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Griff
I'm thinking it was the crayon check off note. Either way great pic even if it doesn't seem food related at all.
Sweet! You read my mind three and a quarter hours before I had the thought.

rkzenrage 08-30-2006 12:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Wallpapers, right-click and save in your desired format:

Cas A 1024x768 jpg

Cas A 1280x960 jpg

Cas A 1280x1024 jpg

Cas A 1600x1200 jpg

:D glatt, I do laugh at all my own jokes. :D
That was very kind of you... thanks ever so much!:D

capnhowdy 08-30-2006 06:25 PM
Did 'THEY' delete Pluto off this image as well? I don't see him anywhere. And I liked Pluto.
The wallpaper is super. Thanks, UT. I have Star Wars theme on my other computer. Goes well.


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