THE POWER OF THE STARS RESIDES WITHIN YOU:
Billions of light years away, there is a huge ball of hot gas that is brighter than hundreds of billions of suns. It is hard to visualize something so bright. So what is it?
Astrophysicists are not really sure, but they have a couple theories. They think it may be a very infrequent type of supernova — called a magnetar — but one so powerful that it pushes the energy limits of physics, or in other words, the most powerful supernova ever seen as of today.
Our bodies are made of remnants of stars and massive explosions in the galaxies,
Human blood and bones are a part of the natural cycle of formation.
People come from stars and will return to the stars.Human beings can see how they really are made of stars — the ashes of long-dead stars, but stars nonetheless.
Take a deep breath.
That air filling up your lungs, that oxygen pulled into your bloodstream, stoking your metabolic fire, making you possible, is old. Older than you, older than the Earth itself. That oxygen once lived in the heart of a star that is now long dead. That calcium in your bones? That iron in your blood? The same.
The object was first detected by the All Sky Automated Survey of Supernovae (ASAS-SN or “assassin”), which is a small network of telescopes used to find bright objects in the cosmos. Although this object is extremely bright, it still can’t be observed by the naked eye as it is 3.8 billion light years away.
ASAS-SN, since it started in 2014, has found nearly 250 supernovae, though this finding, ASASSN-15lh, stands out because of its sheer magnitude.
It is 200 times more powerful than the average supernova, 570 billion times brighter than the sun, and 20 times brighter than all the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy combined.
Mysterious Object is 570 Billion Times Brighter than the SunThis object is so luminous that astrophysicists are having a really hard time finding a way to describe it.
