--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > 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. > > > > > > Not even one? In the whole wide entire universe? > > > > Supernovae are *stars*, remember...too much Stuff > > involved to be done with that fast. > > > > Could've been something even more exotic, but not > > a supernova.>> > > > The speed of the flare up would entirely depend upon the size of the > star compared to the forces around it, and how far it into space it > flared up. If the distance that the expansion occured was only a > short one and the power behind the initial implosion and consequent > explosion were very high, plus the environmental forces in the region > (including gravity) did not restrict the expansion phase, then > certainly short duration supernova's are possible and probably very > common.
Are those still called "supernovae?"
