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mmcirvin ([personal profile] mmcirvin) wrote2004-02-20 01:09 am

Hollywood ring-shaped explosions are totally real!!

Supernova 1987a lights up a ring of matter thrown off before the star exploded. It's pretty. Probably ten thousand civilizations were destroyed so that Arthur C. Clarke could write melancholy things about them.

[identity profile] schwa242.livejournal.com 2004-02-19 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! George Lucas got it right by adding big orange rings around scary space explosions.