Shamefully forgotten anniversary

I pray for the night we see the next supernova in our own milkyway. Imagine it's just over 400 years since the last one - ok there was a reported supernova in cassiopeia in the year 1680, but it's reckoned it was only magnitude 6, so really not noticed.

Try and have a look at the countless stars there are at any astrophoto of the summer milkyway, surely the odds are one has to come soon :roll:

Keith..

Was 1987A not in our galaxy?

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Was 1987A not in our galaxy?

Nope, that was in the LMC, a satellite galaxy of our milkyway, at 169,000 light years away. Still reached magnitude 3

Keith..

Was 1987A not in our galaxy?

Nope, that was in the LMC, a satellite galaxy of our milkyway, at 169,000 light years away. Still reached magnitude 3

Keith..

Cool ... in that cast we should be due one at some stage within the next 10 generations or so!