C's hit: Three Supernovae in just a month - Energy pouring into our Universe?

Mikey

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Recently there was this Sott.net article:

http://www.sott.net/article/276623-Possible-Nova-pops-in-Cygnus said:
Possible Nova pops in Cygnus

To see a nova is to witness a cataclysm. Astronomers - mostly amateurs - discover about 10 a year in our Milky Way galaxy.

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Nishiyama and Kabashima [note: those are Japanese observatories] are on something of a hot streak. If confirmed, this would be their third nova discovery in a month! On March 8, they discovered Nova Cephei 2014 at magnitude 11.7 (it's currently around 12th magnitude) and 10th magnitude Nova Scorpii 2014 (now at around 12.5) on March 26. Impressive.

Funny how mainstream science sees Supernovae as a destructive cataclysms. If in this case they got it backwards too (as with almost everything else, e.g. diet), then Supernovae may be rather the opposite, an intense form of Creation. In any event, the new star was confirmed to be indeed a Supernova:



_http://www.astronomy.com/news/sky-events/2014/04/a-new-nova-shines-in-cygnus said:
On March 31 at approximately 19h UT, two Japanese astronomers, Koichi Nishiyama, of Kurume and Fujio Kabashima of Miyaki, reported the discovery of a possible nova. The pair had seen the magnitude 10.9 object on two 40-second unfiltered exposures they captured with a CCD camera attached to a 105mm f/4 camera lens.

Approximately seven hours later, at 2h40m UT April 1, astronomers Gianluca Masi, Francesca Nocentini, and Patrick Schmeer at the Virtual Telescope Project imaged the region with a pair of remotely controlled telescopes. They provided optical and spectroscopic evidence that the new object was, indeed, a nova.

So, it seems we had 3 Supernova discoveries in just a month, whereas the first article says that there are usually only 10 per year (I couldn't find confirmation of this given freuqency). This reminded me of a C's exchange:

Laura said:
A: What do you think about the ”new” explosion 3 to 4 billion light years away? They think, that is.

{Here it seems the Cs are referring to recent news of an explosion that is going on in the center of a small galaxy said to be 3.8 billion light-years away. See:
http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/55258-bizarre-cosmic-explosion-observed
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Cosmic-Fireworks-Erupt-When-Black-Hole-in-Dragons-Belly-Swallows-Star-72239.html
“Astronomers say they have never seen anything this bright, long-lasting and variable before. Usually gamma-ray bursts mark the end of a massive star and emission from these events never lasts more than a few hours. But radiation from the blast continues to brighten and fade from the location a week after the explosion.”
And: “Rather than the short-lived gamma-ray bursts typically associated with the death of a massive star -- most last no more than a few hours -- this explosion continues more than a week later to emanate pulses of high-energy cosmic radiation for an effect that's brighter, longer lasting, and more variable than scientists have ever seen.”}

Q: (L) Are you saying that it’s not as far away as they’re saying it is?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) What is it representing? What is it doing?

A: The wave has begun in earnest!

Q: (L) What do you mean?

A: Energy is pouring into your universe from higher densities.

Maybe "Energy is pouring into your universe from higher densities" is an explanation for increased Supernova observations?

Also, the remark about the explosion being nearer than given is interesting in relation to the Electric Universe theory, which includes the idea that the redshift (which is used to calculate distance) is a function not (only) of an expanding universe, but of electrically charged space and/or interstellar plasma ("tired light"). If the latter holds true, then redshifted objects may indeed be closer than they appear.
 
I think that having 3 supernovae a month instead of about 1 a month might still be just a coincidence. Surely when they say "about 10 a year", it doesn't mean that the novae are evenly distributed throughout the year. So there can be months when something like 2 or 3 happen.
 
With so many supernova news, I'm starting to lose track...

This one looks very interesting:

Supernova shock wave blows-away huge clumps of cosmic clutter

http://www.sott.net/article/277224-Supernova-shock-wave-blows-away-huge-clumps-of-cosmic-clutter

Supernova_Remnant_G352_7_0_1_S.jpg

A supernova remnant called G352.7-0.1 has swept away about 45 times the Sun's mass worth of material during its expansion. This is an unusual occurrence, leading researchers to believe that remnant interacted with a massive amount of dense material. A Chandra X-ray telescope study of the remnant (that is about 24,000 lights years from Earth) was used to make the find.

This may indicate that a special type of stellar evolution has occurred, involving a giant star that ran into unusually dense material before exploding to form a supernova remnant. This supernova - G352.7-0.1 -- has other interesting traits that scientists are still looking to explain. G352.7-0.1 is found in the Milky Way galaxy.

More info from this other article _http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/04/supernova-cleans-up-its-surroundings

Another atypical trait of G352 is that it has a very different shape in radio data compared to that in X-rays. Most of the radio emission is shaped like an ellipse, contrasting with the X-ray emission that fills in the center of the radio ellipse. This is seen in a new composite image of G352 that contains X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue and radio data from the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in pink. These data also have been combined with infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope in orange, and optical data from the Digitized Sky Survey in white. (The infrared emission to the upper left and lower right are not directly related to the supernova remnant.)

A recent study suggests, surprisingly, that the X-ray emission in G352 is dominated by the hotter (about 54 million degrees Fahrenheit [30 million degrees Celsius]) debris from the explosion, rather than cooler (about 4 million degrees F [2 million degrees C]) emission from surrounding material that has been swept up by the expanding shock wave. This is curious because astronomers estimate that G352 exploded about 2,200 years ago, and supernova remnants of this age usually produce X-rays that are dominated by swept-up material. Scientists are still trying to come up with an explanation for this behavior.

Although it does not produce a lot of X-ray emission, the amount of material swept up by G352 is remarkably high for a supernova remnant located in our galaxy. This may indicate that a special type of evolution has occurred in which the massive star that exploded to create G352 interacted with an extraordinary amount of dense surrounding material.

Astronomers also conducted a search for a neutron star that may have been produced by the supernova explosion. They did not find any hints of a neutron star in G352, another astronomical puzzle involved with this system. One possibility is simply that the neutron star is too faint to be detected or that the supernova created a black hole instead.

G352 is found about 24,000 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy.
 
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