# New Supernova! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-supernova/679570 "2014-01-23T23:52:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-supernova/679570/21 "2014-07-19T16:53:05Z")
Alright, 4 months later - going to be out in a really dark spot tonight. Have I missed my chance to see this? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-supernova/679570/22 "2014-07-19T16:56:05Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Isn’t “New Supernova” redundant? 😛 Relative to us, it’s new. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-supernova/679570/23 "2014-07-19T19:18:58Z")
Dammit! I thought it was a new one. **D18** , yeah, probably too late. Supernovae usually are visible naked-eye for a few weeks. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-supernova/679570/24 "2014-07-19T19:46:57Z")
My apologies for getting your hopes up! I debated starting a new thread just for that reason. Anyway, thank you for your answer and I won’t spend a lot of time looking for it. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-supernova/679570/25 "2014-07-19T20:06:09Z")
No worries. Cloudy here anyways! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-supernova/679570/26 "2014-07-20T02:06:35Z")
You know, I can’t help but wonder if that star had any planets harboring alien lifeforms that got completely wiped out in the stellar explosion. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-supernova/679570/27 "2014-07-20T02:15:22Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > You know, I can’t help but wonder if that star had any planets harboring alien lifeforms that got completely wiped out in the stellar explosion. ☹ IIRC, stars that get enough to go supernova aren’t long-lived enough to develop planets - they come and go in a matter of millions of years, not billions. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-supernova/679570/28 "2014-07-20T11:54:57Z")
Isn’t there a science fiction story about a star that goes supernova, wipes out an advanced civilization, and that the main characters discover that that is the “star in the east” from the nativity story. IIRC correctly, one of the main characters was very Christian so it was a “so, like yeah” moment. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-supernova/679570/29 "2014-07-20T12:09:52Z")
> [@D18](#): > > Isn’t there a science fiction story about a star that goes supernova, wipes out an advanced civilization, and that the main characters discover that that is the “star in the east” from the nativity story. IIRC correctly, one of the main characters was very Christian so it was a “so, like yeah” moment. [“The Star”, by Arthur C. Clarke.](http://web.archive.org/web/20080718084442/http://lucis.net/stuff/clarke/star_clarke.html) ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-supernova/679570/30 "2014-07-20T13:51:26Z")
Ah yes. My memory was I saw a movie or something, and I see it was adapted for Twilight Zone 2.0. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-supernova/679570.md?page=1)