This Supernova Actually Alerted Life on Earth Forever

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When a star explodes it can have drastic consequences for the area of space around it, destroying or altering entire systems and beyond. However, a supernova in a star system near our planet may have actually influenced the evolution of life as we know it.

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00:00The Sun is the brightest thing around, but many cosmic objects can be much, much brighter.

00:09In fact, astronomers at NASA have just clocked something in deep space that's so bright.

00:13They say it defies the laws of physics.

00:15They're calling it an ultra-luminous X-ray source, and they say it's around 10 million times brighter than the Sun.

00:21The source has been named M82X2, named for the M82 galaxy where the source is emanating from.

00:27Despite having a name and knowing where it's hailing from, experts still aren't sure what it is.

00:31Current laws of astrophysics outline how when an object gets too bright, it will break apart, a theory called the Eddington Limit.

00:37But this source would thwart that disintegration threshold.

00:40Astronomers initially believed it could be some massive cosmic wind that had been trapped up in a sort of galactic tornado,

00:46spinning into a cone with the tip pointing towards Earth, focusing the light.

00:49But now they say it more likely has to do with a mega-dense pulsating neutron star,

00:53explaining that it could be a super strong magnetic field, firing out from that star as well,

00:57squishing incoming matter and changing the shape of its atomic structure,

01:01elongating atoms and increasing the star's brightness.

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