What Supernova Distance Would Trigger Mass Extinction?
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The excellent PBS Spacetime - a physics and cosmology education channel - has released a new video detailing the effects and likelihood of supernovae in our stellar neighborhood.

  • sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I can answer that: the Sun going supernova would most likely trigger a mass-extinction event on Earth. Time to start writing grant letters

  • MerrickGreen@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Spacetime is really a wonderful channel. The way they make actual quantum physics comprehensible to normal people is incredible.