Didn't see this posted but I thought it was freaking amazing. A Massive Supernova from over 7.5 Billion Lightyears away.
Gamma ray bursts are highly directional, which means we were all on the recieving end of it. But it was half the observable universe away. You wouldn't want to be up close.
I guess they increased the budget for Transformers 2. They blew up a freakin' galaxy or two about 7.5 billion years ago. Somewhere, Michael Bay has an erection.
half-way across the Universe How would they know it's half way o_o? There's a ending to the Universe?
BAWHAHAHA oh god my face hurts I'm laughing so hard 8D.. er at what Kickback said >> and you making it a sig. Yes.
That would be the more accurate sentence at the end of the article. If something is so far away that light from it cannot reach us yet, it's beyond the observable part of the universe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
They're saying that, were you looking at the right place at the right time, this would have been visible with the naked eye... I'm assuming they mean that would have been the case if the light received was at a wavelength our eyes could see, rather than gamma radiation. But still, man, that's phenomenal. When that light was emitted, our solar system was a tenuous gas cloud. The giant star that would eventually supernova and fuse into all of our elements heavier than iron, probably didn't exist. Aside from the hydrogen in our water, and the helium in our balloons, the light from that burster is older than anything you have ever touched. Imagine who will see it in a thousand, a hundred thousand, a billion years as it travels past us.
No no no no no...that isn't a DBZ blast in the second picture... That is Heero from Gundam Wing firing his hyperbeam cannon at something..causing it to go boom!
