Future
The estimated rate of supernova production in a galaxy the size of the Milky Way is about one every 50 years. This is much higher than the actual observed rate, implying that a portion of these events have been obscured from the Earth by interstellar dust. The deployment of new instruments that can observe across a wide range of the spectrum, and neutrino detectors, means that the next such event will almost certainly be detected.
Read more about this topic: History Of Supernova Observation
Famous quotes containing the word future:
“Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Self-kindled every atom glows,
And hints the future which it owes.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.”
—Juliet Mitchell (b. 1940)