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pokerfan

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Sat Jan 26, 2013, 03:48 PM Jan 2013

Blown-Up Star Seen Expanding - 58 Year Time-Lapse Video



In 1901, the star GK Persei, 1,300 Lights Years from Earth, exploded. Images of the remnant (Nova Persei 1901) by the Isaac Newton Telescope and the Nordic Optical Telescope in Spain spliced together allow a 3-D model to be created.

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Blown-Up Star Seen Expanding - 58 Year Time-Lapse Video (Original Post) pokerfan Jan 2013 OP
Cool! But doesn't that mean it actually exploded in 601 AD? Maven Jan 2013 #1
kick samsingh Jan 2013 #2
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