The arrow marks PTF 11kly in images taken on the Palomar 48-inch telescope over the nights of, from left to right, Aug. 22, 23 and 24. The supernova wasn't there Aug. 22, was discovered Aug. 23, and brightened considerably by Aug. 24. CREDIT: Peter Nugent and the Palomar Transient Factory
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I'm glad we can see it from that far away, I wouldn't want to be any closer to that. It doesn't seem that bright compared to Neptune. It's funny to think about the fact that the explosion happened 25 billion years ago!
I think that this article was very cool, and I am glad we can see it from just a regular telescope. I thought it was interesting when the article said that in comparison the planet Neptune is 2.5 to 6 times as bright as this.
I think that it is odd that we know the explosion happened 25 billion years ago! I am glad that we can see from a regular telescope too! I thought that this article was very interesting!
I think that it is so cool that with technology these days, we can see explosions in outer space that are 25 billion light years away, and that is with a regular telescope. And to think that this explosion actually happened 25 billion years ago, it really makes you think how complex space and time is. That is about when our planet was formed! It is so interesting how scientists classify everything. I don't know how they can come up with these combinations of numbers and letters. I want to know more about dark energy. I'll get back to you guys with that.
I apologize about my last post. A lot of my information was wrong. Earth wasn't formed 25 billion years ago, it was formed about 4.5 billion years ago.
I think that the article is interesting, but not in-depth enough. To get more information, I suggest going to BrainPop-Science-Space-Dark Matter. That movie was very interesting to me. This article was sort a heads-up for me, and I'm and very thankful that I now know about it.
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