Folks,
I think you'd have to work REAL hard to get people scared about this
one...
Satellite Detects Massive Explosion: Most Distant Ever Discovered
http://tinyurl.com/9xavk
Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite said yesterday that
they have detected the most distant explosion ever discovered in
the universe, the collapse into a black hole of a massive star
about 12.6 billion light-years from Earth.
The event occurred about 1.1 billion years after the big bang,
the explosion that created the universe an estimated 13.7
billion years ago, the scientists calculated. The only more
distant objects ever detected are a quasar and a single galaxy,
both about 12.7 billion light-years away.
The only thing on Earth likely to be harmed by this particular event
is the "young universe" idea that goes with "intelligent design" or
its predecessor, creationism.
Dave
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