Possible Supernova In Nearby Spiral Galaxy

New submitter Zburatorul writes "In an electronic telegram to the IAU, an Italian astronomer reports his discovery of a possible supernova (magnitude R = 15) near spiral galaxy M95 on images taken March 16th. Many more independent and confirming observations are trickling in. The Bad Astronomer, Phil Plait, has a more layman-friendly article about it. The bad news: it won't be visible with the naked eye. The good news: it's not going to kill us."

I've got some bad news and some good news.

[Anonymous Coward]

The bad news: It won't be visible to the naked eye.

Bummer man! Bummer!

The good news: It's not going to kill us.

Well THAT sucks!

Wait, what?

Probably not a supernova.

[Anonymous Coward]

More likely cause is that they got their version of the Large Hadron Collider up to full power.

Bad news for the dinosaurs

[ehiris]

Since it occurred 40 million years ago, it must have killed off the dinosaurs.

How very advanced of them!

[schmidt349]

An "electronic telegram?" Great, let's head up to Mauna Kea and confirm their results. I propose we travel by horseless sleigh.

Re:Bad news for the dinosaurs

[Anonymous Coward]

The dinosaurs missed out on any possible threat from this explosion by about 40 million years.

Hear that WOOOOSH? That's the joke flying overhead 25.5 million years too late. [wikipedia.org]