On February 24, 1987, a Canadian astronaut named Ian Shelton and his Chilean assistant at the Las Campanas Observatory in northern Chile were making their usual observation, but they noticed a strange luminosity in the southern sky, bright enough...
On February 24, 1987, a Canadian cosmonaut named Prelton and his Chilean assistant, the photonic explosion at the Las Campanas Observatory in northern Chile, made their usual observation, but they noticed a strange luminosity in the southern sky, bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, and not visible the night before. This turned out to be the closest stellar explosion sighted in modern times, and all modern astronomy methods were used to observe it.
Starbursts are catastrophic events in the lives of stars. They involve complex physical processes, so astronomers look at starbursts dazzlingly. But astronomers account for only one in 10,000 people, and how important are the thousands of light-years of starbursts to the rest of humanity living on Earth?
- Dr. Martin Rees, Just Six Numbers, p.65
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