{"id":159313,"date":"2023-03-01T17:26:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/nasa-sheds-light-on-a-massive-supernova-dating-back-to-middle-ages"},"modified":"2023-03-01T17:26:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:26:52","slug":"nasa-sheds-light-on-a-massive-supernova-dating-back-to-middle-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/nasa-sheds-light-on-a-massive-supernova-dating-back-to-middle-ages","title":{"rendered":"NASA sheds light on a massive supernova dating back to Middle Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-sheds-light-on-a-massive-supernova-dating-back-to-middle-ages2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The supernova is so old that it is believed to have been described in a passage of Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cHamlet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists has shed new light on a star that exploded in a supernova more than 450 years ago, blasting particles out into space at close to the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p>Now, astronomers have used NASA\u2019s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry to study the incredibly long-lasting aftereffects of the supernova called Tycho.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\/ASI\/MSFC\/INAF\/R. Ferrazzoli, et al.<\/p>\n<p>The Tycho supernova blast released as much energy as the Sun would emit over ten billion years, NASA pointed out in a statement. The blast was visible to many humans on Earth way back in 1572.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supernova is so old that it is believed to have been described in a passage of Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cHamlet.\u201d A group of scientists has shed new light on a star that exploded in a supernova more than 450 years ago, blasting particles out into space at close to the speed of light. Now, astronomers have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}