The real Star Wars

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, a star exploded.

This star exploded so violently that for a few weeks the star outshone its parent galaxy. This type of explosion is called a Supernova.

We have a new Supernova classified as "2004bv" located in the galaxy "NGC 6907" That's like the sun or some other star in our Milky Way galaxy, exploding and the blast from the explosion outshines the center of the Milky Way where there is believed to be a massive black hole.

It's a 15 magnitude explosion and it is not visible with the naked eye, especially through our soupy, light polluted skies. You'd have to go to a desert in Australia or another southern hemispheric dark location with a 14" telescope and then probably spend a few days triangulating sections of the sky until you saw it and its parent Galaxy, NGC 6907.


When you do get to it through your telescope, it will only be a tiny point of light. But this point of light is thousands of light years accross. That means that if you wanted to see explore this explosion, you'd have to travel for thousands of years at the speed of light.

The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.

It's disturbing to even think of these distances. Think about this--how something so incomprehensively massive can be to us a mere point of light in a galaxy far, far away. If there were populated and maybe civilized worlds anywhere near by within that galaxy they are no more.

Think about how insignificant our problems here on Earth are compared to something that massive and catastrophic. Nothing you go through life is a problem so large that you can't solve it or have someone help you solve.

This Super massive Nova, Like our problems appear to be sometimes, will eventually dissipate and turn into a stellar nursery giving birth to new stars, new worlds new ideas.

We need to remember that our problems can also dissipate and with time we can use the results of these problems to form new ideas, new approaches to old problems, new concepts. But like the supernova, we must wait for things to simmer, cool down, calm down. Nature will take over and the ideas will flow and emerge as if out of stardust.

Which is what we're made of. It's in the Lord's Prayer...

"thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven..."

What we see happen above, we can make happen below as well in a different scale.