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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Sisters of the Sun




Today on Far Future Horizons we proudly present the eighth episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey hosted by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson.


The title of this installment is “Sisters of the Sun” and explores the violent cosmic phenomenon of supernovas, which on average occur once per galaxy per century or one billion times per year in the observable universe.