May 22, 2008 Comments
Seeing a Supernova
Check this out: [Astronomers saw a supernova's birth][1] for the first time ever this past January. Pretty amazing stuff, especially considering we are observing from something like 84 million years after it happened.
[1]:http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/05/21/birth-cry-of-a-supernova/