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A comment on Hubble’s Hitchcock Moment: An Explosion in Unexpected Place.

Re:Hubble’s Hitchcock Moment: An Explosion in Unexpected Place by rbanffy on Friday October 06, 2023 @04:38PM (#37796076)
Interesting, but a painful read, with parts that don't even make sense.

> Such collisions produce a kilonova – an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than a standard supernova. However, one very speculative theory is that if one of the neutron stars is highly magnetized – a magnetar – it could greatly amplify the power of the explosion even further to 100 times the brightness of a normal supernova.

So, if one is a magnetar, it greatly amplifies it to a thing 10x smaller than what it would normally be.

I expect more from AIs.

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Re:Hubble’s Hitchcock Moment: An Explosion in Unexpected Place by venice_benice on Saturday October 07, 2023 @03:20AM (#37799715)
Most of the article is copied wholesale from the official press release: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-finds-...

I'm not even sure how they managed to screw it up when the original makes sense

> Such collisions produce a kilonova – an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than a standard nova. However, one very speculative theory is that if one of the neutron stars is highly magnetized – a magnetar – it could greatly amplify the power of the explosion even further to 100 times the brightness of a normal supernova.

They changed the nova in the first sentence to supernova making the whole thing meaningless. I'm not sure about the correctness of the supernova thing, but at least it is not inconsistent with the previous sentence.

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