The Most Important Explosion in History



Not long after the supernova of 1604, the telescope was invented. But astronomers would have to wait nearly FOUR CENTURIES to witness the next supernova that was visible to the naked eye. It was 1987, and a blue supergiant in the Large Magellanic Cloud was replaced in the night sky with a violent explosion. And nearly four decades on, astronomers are still unpacking what happened.

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  1. May be biased but damn is she the best 'science communicator' of recent sci show fame. Obviously she's gorgeous but beyond that, her cadence and body language really nails it

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  2. I got to see it, being in the Australian outback at night with a fellow tourist that happened to know which direction to look. It was amazing to just need my naked eye, and heady to know at the time it'd been the first like that in 400 years….I think the biggest milestone I ever witnessed…except, oh yeah, the millennium (every 1000 years) and man landing on the moon (arguably every 4.6 billion years for a planet's first like that). 😉

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