{"id":38709,"date":"2011-08-28T15:44:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astroalert-type-ia-supernova-in-m101-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-08-28T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:44:30","slug":"astroalert-type-ia-supernova-in-m101-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/astroalert-type-ia-supernova-in-m101-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"AstroAlert: Type Ia supernova in M101! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2006\/02\/28\/hubble-delivers-again-m101\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26d7b_hst_m101_2006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36656\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Attention all astronomers! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomerstelegram.org\/?read=3581\">There is a new Type Ia supernova<\/a> that has been seen in the nearby spiral galaxy M101, and it&rsquo;s very young &mdash; currently only about a day old! This is very exciting news; getting as much data on this event as possible is critical.  <\/p><p>Most likely professional astronomers are already aware of the supernova, since observations have already been taken by Swift (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomerstelegram.org\/?read=3584\">no X-rays have yet been seen<\/a>, but it&rsquo;s early yet) and Hubble observations have been scheduled. Still, I would urge amateur astronomers to take careful observations of the galaxy.  <\/p><p>[As an aside, I'll note that this supernova won't get bright enough to see naked eye and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/02\/18\/dwarf-merging-makes-for-an-explosive-combo\/\">poses no threat at all to us here on Earth<\/a>. It may be visible in decent-sized telescopes, though, and as you'll see this may be a very important event in the annals of astronomy.]<\/p><p><em>[UPDATE: Joseph Brimacombe <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/43846774@N02\/6079812340\/\">took a very nice shot of the new supernova<\/a> using a 20\" telescope in New Mexico. Thanks to Surak <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/08\/25\/astroalert-type-ia-supernova-in-m101\/#comment-410112\">who left a comment below<\/a> about this.]<\/em><\/p><p>So why is this a big ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Z2twt2vyN_fT1jgSkVR9KCoK3ik\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26d7b_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Z2twt2vyN_fT1jgSkVR9KCoK3ik\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26d7b_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26d7b_Am1Hku1pQCw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/26d7b_0eHsUiOGZAU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention all astronomers! There is a new Type Ia supernova that has been seen in the nearby spiral galaxy M101, and it&rsquo;s very young &mdash; currently only about a day old! This is very exciting news; getting as much data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/astroalert-type-ia-supernova-in-m101-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}