The Cellar - View Single Post - Giant exploding star outshines previous supernovas

Urbane Guerrilla · 05-10-2007, 02:19 AM

Part of their difficulty in dealing with this phenomenon in theory is that they don't even know if they have anything to compare it with. Some are guessing maybe Eta Carinae might be a similar object. I'll have to nose around to see what the theoretical lifespan of a 150 Msun star as a main-sequence object would be. Shockingly brief, I suspect.

05-10-2007, 02:19 AM	#3
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Part of their difficulty in dealing with this phenomenon in theory is that they don't even know if they have anything to compare it with. Some are guessing maybe Eta Carinae might be a similar object. I'll have to nose around to see what the theoretical lifespan of a 150 Msun star as a main-sequence object would be. Shockingly brief, I suspect. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.