Showing posts with label supernova. Show all posts
Showing posts with label supernova. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 September 2025

Did a star blow up and hit Earth "10 million years" ago?

 

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Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, did a supernova blow up some 10 millions years ago?

There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and now we have an idea of which stars may be to blame have sent cosmic rays hurtling at Earth, ang star may have sent cosmic shrapnel flying to hit Earth 10 million years ago, and astronomers have now in arrowed down the most likely culprits behind this interstellar incident.

Earlier this year, Dominik Koll at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany and his colleagues discovered a spike of radioactive beryllium buried in metallic rocks 5 kilometres beneath the Pacific Ocean, which they dated to just over 10 million years old. This form of beryllium is produced only when cosmic rays smash into Earth’s atmosphere, so Koll and his team theorised that one possible cause could be from a supernova that exploded long ago.

Source: 

Alex Wilkins 2025 Did a star blow up and hit Earth 10 million years ago? | New Scientist 26 September 

Friday, 9 May 2025

Was a famous supernova an alien invader from another galaxy?

 


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Joel Kontinen

Kepler’s Supernova, seen in 1604, is one of the most famous exploding stars ever seen, and now astronomers think it may have been an interloper from another galaxy

Could a supernova be an invader from outside our solar system? some revolutions are speculating on this, but space seems to be full of objects that we do not understand just like this supernova.

One of the most famous exploding stars ever recorded by humanity may have been an invader from another galaxy, according to a new analysis of its movements. What is more, alien stars like this might be behind 1 per cent of all the supernovae we see in the galaxy.

In 1604, astronomers saw a new, incredibly bright star appear in the sky, outshining any other. German astronomer Johannes Kepler, who also derived some of the first laws of planetary motion, observed the star for a year.

Source:

Alex Wilkins 2025 Was a famous supernova an alien invader from another galaxy? | New Scientist 9 May 


Thursday, 20 February 2025

Gigantic star has gone through a rapid transformation and may explode

 


Image courtesy of ESO/L. Calçada

Joel Kontinen

Space is wonderful, but stars can be fickle. Some exoplanets seem to change their composition oddly. This happened to a star that is about to explode as a supernova.

”One of the largest stars in the known universe is undergoing a strangely rapid transformation and may soon explode as a supernova.

First catalogued in 1981, WOH G64 sits some 160,000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It is one of the biggest red supergiants, the largest stars we know of. These are massive, cool stars that have run out of hydrogen fuel in their core and instead burn an envelope of hydrogen gas that surrounds them.”

Source:

Chris Simms WOH G64: Gigantic star has gone through a rapid transformation and may explode | New Scientist 20 February 2025


Monday, 12 June 2023

Evolutionists think that a supernova could harbour life,


 

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Joel Kontinen.

Astronomers think that a supernova SN 2023ixf might be an opportunity for concocting other civilisations

 They are looking toward a recently  discover supernova that emits signals, in the hope that this would be other civilisation trying to contact us.

“Last month, a supernova dubbed SN 2023ixf was found in the nearby Pinwheel galaxy 21 million light years away, the closest stellar explosion detected from Earth in a decade,”,

However, the entire galaxy was formed by God in the beginnng, 


Source: 

 O’Callaghan,  Jonathan. 2023,  Astronomers are using a new supernova to search for alien signals,  New Scientist,  9 June. ,



Monday, 29 May 2023

Space is big


Image courtesy of Sebastian Gomez et al.

Joel Kontinen

Space is big. Astronomers have found supernova SN 2023ixf in the Pinwheel galaxy, . It is some 21 million light years away from Earth.

Azalee Bostroem at the University of Arizona, says it was it was probably a type II supernova, in which a supergiant star runs out of fuel and collapses in on itself before exploding. 

If we leave evolution for the moment, the answer seems to be that God created us  in the beginning, 

Source; 

 O’Callaghan,  Jonathan, 2023. Astronomers race to observe rare supernova in a nearby galaxy. New Scientist.   24 May,