back to article I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Hydrogen clouds in a far-away star system glowing from a supernova's last gasp

More than 20 years ago a huge wave of energized interstellar gas was detected passing through the Big Dipper – or The Plough as it's known in the UK. Now astrophysicists think they've figured out the cause of the cosmic commotion: a ripple from a massive supernova explosion passing through the Milky Way. The weird phenomenon, …

  1. Bronek Kozicki
    Terminator

    All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

    n/t

  2. eldakka
    Coat

    I do apologise

    More than 20 years ago a huge wave of energized interstellar gas was detected passing through the Big Dipper

    I had a lot of beans for dinner that night.

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