Talk:History of supernova observation

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This article was spawned from the main supernova article in order to reduce the size of the latter. It may be considered a specialized sub-component of the higher-level history of astronomy that focuses on supernovae. Thanks. — RJH (talk) 18:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA Nomination

Well, considering this was part of a GA to begin with, it's obviously GA material, but let's go through the criteria anyway.

1. It is well written. pass. Good prose and follows guidlines. 2. It is factually accurate and verifiable. In this respect: pass. very well cited. 3. It is broad in its coverage. In this respect : pass. well explains all supernovae records, contemporary and modern interpretations, and probable remnants. 4. It follows the neutral point of view policy. In this respect:pass. N/A 5. It is stable, pass. 6. It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic. In this respect:pass. Thanatosimii 01:11, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Actually it was split off from the SN article before the later reached GA status. — RJH (talk) 16:12, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese picture.

I remember years and years ago I saw a documentary on BBC1 about stars. One bit of it included a painting a chinese man had done in ancient times of a bright star in the sky that scientist believe is the oldest recorded sighting of a supernova. But I can't find the picture anywhere anymore.... I want to find it for my own personal satisfaction but it'd be cool to put in this article too. Any ideas, supernova people?Simondrake 20:59, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Consistency with other articles

The apparent magnitude and distance for SN 1006 do not seem to match the values given in the article on that supernova. Someone should check the sources of these facts. This article claims a magnitude of -9 and a distance of 4000 light-years, while the SN 1006 article claims -7.5 and 7000 light-years. PSimeon (talk) 19:33, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. I fixed the value on this page and provided a reference. But unfortunately that doesn't solve the problem of the remainder of the table entries being unreferenced. I've added a tag and I'll see if it gets referenced. If not, then the table may need to be yanked.—RJH (talk) 22:14, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
The table is a translation of a table from the Dutch article. Possibly some references could be taken from there (Bronnen en nadere informatie). Bamse (talk) 05:11, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
The table is not cited on the Dutch article, so that doesn't seem to help.—RJH (talk) 17:17, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Discovery of Most Recent Supernova in Our Galaxy

Recent news story about Supernova remnant G1.9+0.3:

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/g19/press_051408.html

RJH (talk) 20:33, 14 May 2008 (UTC)