Striking quotes/sections:
"...releasing in an instant the energy of a hundred billion suns, burning for a time brighter than all the stars in its galaxy."
"If a supernova explosion happened within five hundred light years of us, we would be goners..."
"...all that distinguishes them from the other stars in the sky is that they occupy a point of space that wasn't filled before."
- I thought that these quotes were a great way of to emphasize how big the universe truly is(said to be). I was also impressed by the amount of destruction a supernova may cause and how far away they are due to the comparison that the second statement states. It's crazy just to think of how far away these supernovas are and the power they have! Some of the questions I came a cross were; Why are they so far away? What stops them from being closer?
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