--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of off_world_beings > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A supernova a second > > > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , bob_brigante <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0703/feature3/multimedia.html > > > > March 2007 National Geographic magazine: > > > > "Once a second somewhere in the universe a star explodes with the > > brilliance of an entire galaxy">>> > > I saw one. > No-one will believe this but, I saw one the day Doug Henning died. (I > should point out I had, and have, no sense of interest or connection to > Doug Henning or anything he did whatsoever...totally uninteresting to > me). On the day Doug Henning died, I walked out of the dome in the > evening, happened to look straight up, and I saw a bright point of > light come alive and then fade slowly over about 2-3 seconds. I > thought: "Wow, I just saw a supernova - amazing". I had studied > astronomy in-depth as a teenager, and I could think of nothing else > that would do that, so deep in the evening sky. It was like a silent > beacon from deep deep in the warmth of space, there was a warmth and > bliss to everything in those moments. And I thought, maybe I imagined > it, but I'll just check its position and see if there are any reports > in astronomy magazines. So I noted its position between Orion and > Casseoppeia. A few weeks later I was in a bookstore browsing, and > decided to look the position up, to see where it was. I was amazed to > find that the constellation it was in was Auriga (which I had forgotten > since my teenage studies), and further that Auriga meant "The > Charioteer", so I thought that was neat, because Maharishi had always > been going on about Brahman being the Charioteer. But further I looked > and then I discovered that within Auriga, right around the region where > I saw the supernova (or whatever it was) was a tiny constellation I had > never heard of called "the Magicians". How funny, since it was the day > Doug Henning died who was so close to Maharishi's heart. I don't know > the exact time Doug died or wether it coincided at all with me walking > out the dome around 6.45 - 7pm in the evening, but that is my story of > having seen (maybe) a supernova. > > OffWorld > > Cool story, but I don't think supernovae blow up and fizz out in a matter of > seconds. Wikipedia says it takes several weeks or months: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernovae>>
Some of them certainly can appear and fizz out in seconds. OffWorld
