=(o)= Mystery of the Most Violent Event in the Universe: A Supernova Core-Collapse =(o)=

Thank You!

seven days was all she wrote.


adding some music.

“Tracing Our Cosmic Origins Using the World’s Fastest Supercomputers”
Anthony Mezzacappa, Ph.D.
Director Theoretical Astrophysics Group in Physics
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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I was at this lecture on Friday in Boca Raton FAU campus.
with about 75 others.

Interesting on several points were asked of Anthony regarding Binary Star in our system, he belived this to be a real possibility, Betguise which may have already gone super Nova...

Time on Jaguar has shown that The Super Nova relaese takes about one second probably slightly less than.

Operating time on Jaguar to study this Anthoney teamn gets about 3 months of crunch time but ittakes up to a year in actual computation time while schudiling with other scientist.

BTW this computer is about to become Third best see GLP article yesterday

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Look! I got fan mail already! w00t

It appears all the idiot Earth-like planets out there in the Universe eventually end up the same -- they create a CERN Generator, Particle Accelerator and accidently create a Supernova. It even confirms the Theory that History repeats itself...

AAHH!!

[j/k]

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"Galactic superwaves are a recent discovery. During the early 60's astronomers began to realize that the massive object that forms the core of our Galaxy (the Milky Way), periodically becomes active.(9) The cores of all spiral galaxies cycle through a similar phase. During its active period, our galactic core spews out a fierce quasar-like barrages of cosmic rays, with a total energy output equal to hundreds of thousands of supernova explosions.(10, 11) In some galaxies these active emissions have been observed to equal the energy from billions of supernova explosions."

Also these superwaves affect all planets/stars within the galaxy..

"The effects on the Sun and on the Earth's climate were not due to the Galactic cosmic rays themselves, but to the cosmic dust that these cosmic rays transported into the Solar System. Observations have shown that the Solar System is presently immersed in a dense cloud of cosmic dust, material that is normally kept at bay by the outward pressure of the solar wind. But, with the arrival of this Galactic cosmic ray volley, the solar wind was overpowered and large quantities of this material were pushed inward. The Sun was enveloped in a cocoon of dust that caused its spectrum to shift toward the infrared. In addition, the dust grains filling the Solar System scattered radiation back to the Earth, producing an "interplanetary hothouse effect" that substantially increased the influx of solar radiation to the Earth. Details of this scenario are described in Paul LaViolette's book Earth Under Fire,(1) in his Ph.D. dissertation,(2) as well as in a series of journal articles he has published.(3­8)

LaViolette's research suggests that the Sun also became highly active as dust and gas falling onto its surface induced extreme flaring activity. Together with the radiation influx from the Sun's dust cocoon, this caused the Sun's corona and photosphere to inflate, much as is observed today in dust-choked stars called "T Tauri stars." These various solar effects caused atmospheric warming and inversion conditions that facilitated glacial growth which brought on ice age conditions. On occasions when the solar radiation influx to the Earth became particularly high, the ice age climate warmed, initiating episodes of rapid glacial melting and continental flooding. There is evidence that one particularly tragic solar flare event occurred around 12,900 years ago during a period when the Sun was particularly active. This involved the release of an immense coronal mass ejection which engulfed the Earth and induced a mass animal extinction."

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has its own heartbeat

Is that what it really sounds like? That is the coolest thing I've ever heard. Thanks :)

Someday our air travel will evolve.

The Sounds & Links are Superb... Awesome sharing people :)

Just Wait till they can use this heavy weight champion
The Oak Ridge Lab Adding New Titan Supercomputer For Science
Thread: Oak Ridge Lab Adding Titan Supercomputer: Performing 20 Petaflops Per Second!

Theory, theory ... when you hold us

Meet the Supermassive Black Hole experts - BBC science




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Wait til you see the Super duper super nova!

Its not half as violent as shoving all the pixels of your mother's fat-pictures onto the internet.

I hear when your mamma uploaded her picture to the internet it got half way done and then they hit the Internet Kill Switch at Obama's black house cause they thought it was terrorism and then still thought it was terrorism when they saw the picture until someone said "Oh no, thats just OP's fat mother's stomach".

Fatass magoo

Nice!!

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I Love Fan Mail!

really?? tens of millions?? there is slightly over 114 years in a million hours you fuckin jerked off jackass

Jaguars are fast tho arnt they

sure are!


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You really are a bright seed, aren't you...

1. Your quoting me? Wrong, your quoting the article.

2. Computer hours are calculated by number of cores used.

3. You didn't read the article otherwise you would know this.

4. When you see " " being used before a link. It's called quoting the article inbred moran.

Last Edited by SeraphSirius on 03/08/2011 06:51 PM

I'm pretty sure the "most violent event in the universe" is a gamma ray burst.

Not that a supernova is any kind of joke. I don't want one going off over my head. And I think the most powerful supernovae are the Type 1 supernovae- where a binary system consists of a white dwarf accreting "mass" from its "stellar companion" (usually a low-mass red giant or something....though I think it can be any kind of star if it's close enough...) (?)

When the teenie-tiny (but high-mass) white dwarf absorbs past the Chandrasekhar limit (which is just fancy-talk for when it basically overflows with mass) it explodes.

And then the light outshines every other object in that galaxy. Sometimes for years.

Pretty awesome.

Germinga!!!

Sting!Fav muso of all time and vinnie on drums...the best drummer of all time

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I thought the "big bang" (badaboom) was the most violent event in the universe.

Now I'm really confused.

I checked out the history of supernova outbursts and there have been a few events in our historical data. Check out: [link to en.wikipedia.org]

Some of the eyewitness testimonies are awesome and we just may be in for a treat. This would be a fantastic site to behold such massive power driven outward/inward effects all planetary and celestial objects within thousands of light years.

"The supernova explosion that formed the Gum Nebula most likely occurred 10,000–20,000 years ago. In 1972, NASA astronomers suggested that inhabitants of the southern hemisphere may have witnessed this explosion and recorded it symbolically. A year later, archaeologist George Michanowsky recalled some incomprehensible ancient markings in Bolivia that were left by Native Americans. The carvings showed four small circles flanked by two larger circles. The smaller circles resemble stellar groupings in the constellations Vela and Carina. One of the larger circles may represent the star Capella. As other circle is located near the position of the supernova remnant, George Michanowsky suggested this may represent the supernova explosion as witnessed by the indigenous residents.[2]

In 185 CE, Chinese astronomers recorded the appearance of a bright star in the sky, and observed that it took about eight months to fade from the sky. It was observed to sparkle like a star and did not move across the heavens like a comet. These observations are consistent with the appearance of a supernova, and this is believed to be the oldest confirmed record of a supernova event by humankind. SN 185 may have also possibly been recorded in Roman literature, though no records have survived.[3] The gaseous shell RCW 86 is suspected as being the remnant of this event, and recent X-ray studies show a good match for the expected age.[4]

In 393 CE, the Chinese recorded the appearance of another "guest star", SN 393, in the modern constellation of Scorpius.[5] Additional unconfirmed supernovae events may have been observed in 369 CE, 386 CE, 437 CE, 827 CE and 902 CE.[1] However these have not yet been associated with a supernova remnant, and so they remain only candidates. Over a span of about 2,000 years, Chinese astronomers recorded a total of twenty such candidate events, including later explosions noted by Islamic, European, and possibly Indian and other observers.[1][6]

The supernova SN 1006 appeared in the southern constellation of Lupus during the year 1006 CE. This was the brightest recorded star ever to appear in the night sky, and its presence was noted in China, Egypt, Iraq, Italy, Japan and Switzerland. It may also have been noted in France, Syria, and North America. Egyptian physician, astronomer and astrologer Ali ibn Ridwan gave the brightness of this star as one-quarter the brightness of the Moon. Modern astronomers have discovered the faint remnant of this explosion and determined that it was only 7,100 light-years from the Earth.[7]
Multiwavelength X-ray image of SN 1572 or Tycho's Nova

Supernova SN 1054 was another widely-observed event, with Arab, Chinese, and Japanese astronomers recording the star's appearance in 1054 CE. It may also have been recorded by the Anasazi as a petroglyph.[8] This explosion appeared in the constellation of Taurus, where it produced the Crab Nebula remnant. At its peak, the luminosity of SN 1054 may have been four times as bright as Venus, and it remained visible in daylight for 23 days and was visible in the night sky for 653 days.[9][10]

There are fewer records of supernova SN 1181, which occurred in the constellation Cassiopeia just over a century after SN 1054. It was noted by Chinese and Japanese astronomers, however. The pulsar 3C58 may be the stellar relic from this event.[11]

The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was noted for his careful observations of the night sky from his observatory on the island of Hven. In 1572 he noted the appearance of a new star, also in the constellation Cassiopeia. Later called SN 1572, this supernova was associated with a remnant during the 1960s.[12]

A common belief in Europe during this period was the Aristotelian idea that the world beyond the Moon and planets was immutable. So observers argued that the phenomenon was something in the Earth's atmosphere. However Tycho noted that the object remained stationary from night to night—never changing its parallax—so it must lie far away.[13][14] He published his observations in the small book De nova et nullius aevi memoria prius visa stella (Latin for "concerning the new (...) star") in 1573. It is from the title of this book that the modern word nova for cataclysmic variable stars is derived.[15]
Multiwavelength X-ray image of the remnant of Kepler's Supernova, SN 1604. (Chandra X-ray Observatory)

The most recent supernova to be seen in the Milky Way galaxy was SN 1604, which was observed October 9, 1604. Several people noted the sudden appearance of this star, but it was Johannes Kepler who became noted for his systematic study of the object. He published his observations in the work De Stella nova in pede Serpentarii.[16]

Galileo, like Tycho before him, tried in vain to measure the parallax of this new star, and then argued against the Aristotelian view of an immutable heavens.[17] The remnant of this supernova was identified in 1941 at the Mount Wilson Observatory.[18]"

Watch for Orion. Anything within a 2000 light year distance.