Christmas gamma burst stupendo-explosion DEATHMATCH
Dramatic news from the world of astro-boffinry today as two theories go head to head in the quest to explain a cosmic explosion of unparallelled power sighted in the skies last Christmas. This stellar stupendo-explosion was no measly supernova of the sort which may have given rise to the Bible story of the guiding star which …
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Volume Control please
"What unfeasible cosmic violence - could possibly have generated so vast an outpouring of energy". Yes indeed and it's not even Friday.
You may not think it's Friday...
...but it is for me.....
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What would happen if a space goat and an anti-matter space goat head-butt each other?
Or then again
maybe the Great Green Arkleseizure had a little hick-up.
Ready a B-Ark, and put all lawyers and bank managers in, but NOT the telephone sanitizers, this time round.
Or then again
May the great green Arkleseizure sneezed just a little bit
Better get a B-ark ready and put all the lawyers, stockbrokers, and bank managers in it this time.
Whatever you do DO NOT put the telephone sanitisers in there
Burst source
"What unfeasible cosmic violence - could possibly have generated so vast an outpouring of energy"
An alien race's equivalent to a female was scorned? Just sayin' ...
that's just terriffic isn't it?
Oh great. I had thought that GRBs were A) far, far away and B) unlikely to happen in the near future. Now this. Merry Christmas. And yes, I know 10 000 lyrs sounds like a long way off, but it still seems too close for my paranoid psyche.
You calll that a Gamma Ray Stupendo-Explosion DEATHMATCH?
Don't make me angry.
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry......
Neologistic overload
The author has used up El Reg's lifetime supply of the word "astro-boffin" and its derivatives.
Let's get this right
Re. "The Bible story of the guiding star which guided the Three Kings in to deliver festive presents to the baby Jesus."
The Three Kings or Wise Men, were in fact most probably Astrologers, and most certainly not Astronomers, as astronomy as such didn't exist till more than a thousand years after the event.
So, no guiding star, just the correct alignment of the planets to predict the birth of a very special royal person in Palestine.
But never mind I like Christmas time, and it's a very nice story!
Concerned
10,000 light years? Isn't our galaxy only 100,000 light years across? That's practically down the street. Feel the burn.
Neutron Star Collides with a Red Giant and becomes a Black Hole
The most wonderful thing about the universe at large is this: Randomness isn't even.
Clearly the astroboffins
got quite a present last Xmas.
Interesting stuff!
Stupendity?!
I don't know if it exists as a word, but if it doesn't, then well done for inventing it...I love it.
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