• Question: Is the light from a supernova dangerous?

    Asked by anon-174140 to Alex, Carl, Melanie, Tim, Yewande on 20 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 20 Jun 2018:

      It depends how close we are to it – the amount of energy released in a supernova explosion is very high. The light itself is bright enough to cause permanent blindness, so either way, it’s pretty dangerous!

    • Photo: Carl Barford

      Carl Barford answered on 20 Jun 2018:

      Light is the same no matter where it comes from. The dangerous bit coming from suns is the high energy stuff like ultra violet, up to x rays, which is filtered out by our earth

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