<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9ac75ce4-3c64-4c56-a9ce-6102ef8c320a/69659366-4CC8-4A0C-9845-6F9CC62A2671/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/swift_supernova.html" href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/swift_supernova.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/swift_supernova.html"><SPAN class="img_comments_right"> <IMG width="226" height="450" border="0" align="bottom" src="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/229027main_SupernovaBefore_226x450.jpg" title="Satellite images of galaxy NGC 2770" alt="Satellite images of galaxy NGC 2770" /> Swift took these images of SN 2007uy in galaxy NGC 2770 before SN 2008D exploded. An X-ray image is on top. The lower image is in visible light. <B>Credit:</B> NASA/Swift Science Team/Stefan Immler. <A title="" href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/211877main_Supernova_before_nolabels.jpg">&gt; Larger image</A> </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/swift_supernova.html"><SPAN class="img_comments_right"> <IMG width="226" height="450" border="0" align="bottom" src="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/229026main_SupernovaAfter_226x450.jpg" title="Satellite images of a supernova" alt="Satellite images of a supernova" /> On January 9 Swift caught a bright X-ray burst from an exploding star. A few days later, SN 2008D appeared in visible light. <B>Credit:</B> NASA/Swift Science Team/Stefan Immler.<BR /> <A title="" href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/211876main_Supernova_after_nolabels.jpg">&gt; Larger image</A> </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/swift_supernova.html">thanks to NASA’s Swift satellite, astronomers have seen a star actually blow up.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/swift_supernova.html"> On January 9, 2008, Alicia Soderberg and Edo Berger of Princeton University, in Princeton, N.J., were using Swift’s X-ray Telescope to observe a distant spiral-shaped galaxy known as NGC 2770. Suddenly, at 9:33 in the morning Eastern Time, the telescope picked up a powerful burst of X-rays coming from the galaxy. The burst lasted 5 minutes before it faded away.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/swift_supernova.html">For the first time, astronomers had seen a star blow up in real time!</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/swift_supernova.html">Robert Naeye<BR /> NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/69659366-4CC8-4A0C-9845-6F9CC62A2671/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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