Death of a star

[Nearly Sane]

Fascinating

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66397231

[Sriram]

When our tail is on fire we are spending billions of dollars to take pretty pictures of exploding stars 2600 light years away! Really?!

Nero is said to have been fiddling.....

[bluehillside Retd.]

Sriram,

When our tail is on fire we are spending billions of dollars to take pretty pictures of exploding stars 2600 light years away! Really?!

Nero is said to have been fiddling.....

"anti-intellectual

adjective

smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values"

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/anti-intellectual#:~:text=synonyms%3A%20philistine%20nonintellectual,synonyms%3A%20lowbrow%2C%20philistine

[Enki]

I remember seeing the ring nebula through a 4 inch reflector many years ago. I found it awesome that I could see, albeit quite tiny, what I had previously seen in astronomical books.  It was one of the things which led me to eventually get my own astronomical telescope.

[Sebastian Toe]

When our tail is on fire we are spending billions of dollars to take pretty pictures of exploding stars 2600 light years away! Really?!

Nero is said to have been fiddling.....

Is India sending a fiddler to the moon?