pictures make no sense

seanu

16th May 2007 - 11:21 AM

http://www.physorg.com/news97768878.html

Look at that artists impression. Does it look anything like the two satelite images? NO! I suppose it is an artists impression, so they can draw whatever they see in their imagination.

kaneda

16th May 2007 - 05:17 PM

At 240,000,000 light years away all any telescope is going to see is a blob of light. I don't know whose idea the illustration was but it's a pretty generic idea of a space explosion by someone who knows hardly anything of astronomy.

I trust that the reddish stuff on either side is coloured gases and elements and not two halves of the star being blown apart which is what it looks like.

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