God Awful Things

Via BadAstronomy:

As the blast wave moves through the gas of the star, the elements in that gas undergo an explosive fusion, creating new, heavier elements. Elements like iron, calcium, and gold. The hemoglobin in your blood, the bones in your body, and the wedding ring on your finger — all of these can trace their lineage back to a star that exploded like SN2008D. Every heavy element in the Universe was created in such an event, in the heart and fury of a supernova.

This is in relation to the once in a billion years chance of seeing a supernova explode, which happened out of coincidence on january 9th 2008, supernova 2008d formed whilst observing supernova 2007uy..

Years ago I took a lot of psychedelic mushrooms and observed my own mental supernova, that was pretty amazing too, it however; created no gold..