(I've taken the liberty of cropping/rearranging sentences to convey the most info possible while complying w/ DU rules... )
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060223_explosion.htmlNASA Detects 'Totally New' Mystery Explosion Nearby
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 23 February 2006
05:29 pm ET
The event, detected Feb. 18, looks something like a gamma-ray burst (GRB), scientists said. But it is much closer —about 440 million light-years away— than others. And it lasted about 33 minutes. Most GRBs are billions of light-years away and last less than a second or just a few seconds. It is the second-closest GRB ever detected. But it's not clear if it will ultimately be called one.
Italian researchers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile found signs in the event's optical afterglow that it may become a supernova. The scenario outlined by some researchers is that a very massive star has collapsed into a black hole and then exploded.
If the event is indeed a supernova in the making, scientists may get the first look at one unfolding from start to finish... it would reach peak brightness in about a week... in the constellation Aries... Experienced backyard astronomers can see the explosion with a telescope by using these coordinates: RA: 03:21:39.71 Dec: +16:52:02.6
This is an exciting story, to me. But it raises puzzling questions:
What, if any, affect does an astronomical event like a supernova or comet have on an astrological chart? Are astronomical events = astrological events?
What about major events like the earth's spin changing after 2004's enormous earthquake and tsunami? Over time it will change rising/setting times by a couple of seconds... the difference grows over time. What kind of "margin of error" is built into an astrological chart? Are charts going to need adjusting? (http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-58/iss-6/p10.html , http://einstein.stanford.edu/highlights/hl_010705.html )
What about strange occurrances like Chandler's Wobble pausing for a moment? (Well, not a moment, but six weeks.) Chandler's Wobble describes the migration of magnetic poles due to the earth wobbling as it spins on its axis. This guy thinks it might mean big earthquakes.
The apparent GRB mentioned above kindof coincides w/ "Matthew's message" talked about in this forum. Do you suppose there's a connection?