2011.09.05 14:24
Pinwheel Galaxy's SN2011FE supernova causes stir Brian Vastag, Washington Post Monday, September 5, 2011 Twenty-one million years ago in the Pinwheel Galaxy - an elegant, spiral-armed neighbor of our own Milky Way - an old, dim star had a very bad day. It exploded and began to blaze like a billion suns. On Aug. 24, Peter Nugent had a very good day. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory astrophysicist was about to grab lunch when he checked to see if a robotic telescope had spied anything of interest the night before. Bingo. Boom. Supernova. And not just any supernova. Every night, astronomers spot several exploding stars across the universe. But this one was so close - in cosmic terms - and seen so soon after its light reached Earth that astronomers are calling it the supernova of a generation. An automated sky survey that searches for new nighttime objects with a telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County first flagged the supernova. Soon, telescopes around the world - and beyond, including the Hubble Space Telescope - swiveled to take a peek. "This is a special event," said Ken Sembach of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. "Everyone wants a piece of it." Nugent said the blaze will continue to brighten until Wednesday or Thursday, visible just above the handle of the Big Dipper to backyard astronomers wielding binoculars. The last supernova to generate such buzz flared into view in 1972. Before that, a 1937 explosion caught everyone's attention. Three hours after Nugent's discovery, the Grand Canary Telescope off the coast of Africa - where the sun had just set - took a look. The jackpot grew bigger when that scope's data poured in. The Pinwheel supernova - technically known as SN2011FE - was a Type 1a, of special interest to astronomers. Type 1a's all blaze with nearly the same brightness. That makes them the perfect yardsticks for measuring cosmic distances. Their apparent brightness tells us how far away they are. In the 1990s, Robert Kirshner, a veteran Harvard University supernova hunter, led a team that leveraged this property to make one of the biggest discoveries of the past century: The universe is flying apart, rapidly accelerating. To explain this, cosmologists were forced into an uncomfortable conclusion. Either gravity does not work the way it is supposed to, or a mysterious force is pushing galaxies apart at a quickening pace. They called this unknown force "dark energy" and still have little idea what it is, even though they are able to calculate that it constitutes an astounding 73 percent of all mass and energy in the universe. Cosmologists hope the new supernova will help refine estimates of the universe's acceleration. The data might even hint at the nature of dark energy.
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오늘 아침 신문에서 처음 읽고 다음에 Internet을 부랴부랴 뒤져서 여기에 올렸읍니다.
더 쉽게 말하면 21 million years ago, 아무도 모르게 (인간이 존재하기 전) Pinwheel Galaxy에서
폭팔한 Supernova의 반짝임의 광선이 21 Million year의 여행으로 지난 수요일 드디어 지구에 도착했고,
그것을 지구상의 천체 망원경이 포착했다는 얘기입니다.
즉 우리는 21 million년전에 일어난 일을 지난 수요일부터 처음부터 보기 시작한것이지요.
폭팔초기의 반짝하는 Flash를 이어서 점점 더 폭팔이 커지면서 (퍼지면서),
이 Supernova는 앞으로 얼마동안 매일 점점 더 밝어질것입니다.
따라서 얼마후에는 우리가 보통 쌍안경으로도 볼수있게될거라합니다.
위치는 북두칠성 (Big Dipper)의 손잡이 바로 위라고 합니다.