Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for May 29, 2019
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Richard's Poor Almanac Spring Sky Watch by Richard Thompson The grand piano Safe The anvil The lawn dart Oh, great. ETA Carinae Terra firma Recent findings indicate that a nearby star, Eta Carinae, could go supernova, even hyper-nova, at any time. Makes this whole stargazing thing kind of an unnerving hobby. I'd say. Eta C. is only 7,500 light years away; as astronomical measurements go that's about as close as Dennis the Menace lives to Mr. Wilson! Eta C. is sitting right next door, bloating up & spitting gamma rays & and who knows what all, so close you can hear it. And none of those constellations looks too reassuring, either. In other good news, rumor has it that megalomaniac Kim Jong-Il has built a Death Star out of tin foil & a bug zapper. Our advice is, skip the stargazing, keep your head down & wear a hat. There's gamma rays out there.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 4 years ago
Gamma Ray Bursters or GRB’s can destroy habitable planets by stripping off their ionosphere and bathing the planet in dangerous gamma rays. If close enough.
(It is rumored that the dreaded and primordial “Old Ones” called KUTULLÛ did that to adversaries. Cause two neutron stars to collide and aim that gamma ray beam to the solar system of their perceived enemies. )
Fortunately most of them are pointed in different directions or too far away. One may have hit us in the Devonian Extinction.
Sisyphos almost 4 years ago
Life is tougher, scarier, when you know Too Much….
Joliet Jake almost 4 years ago
Since Eta C. is 7,500 LY distance, it means anything we’re seeing today actually happened around 5,500 BC.