Science in the News 6

The article I read this week is named, "Super-Luminous Supernovae May Be Powered By Magnetars," and this is the link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131016132155.htm

This very interesting article is about astronomers that have proposed that the brightest stars on the universe, called super-luminous supernovae are powered by magnetars with gigantic magnetic fields. This issue relates to what I have learned in science a few years ago because we used to study stars and how the travel with the speed of light and how they are thousands of years old. The reader gets the feeling that the author takes a very positive position towards the ideal that super-luminous supernovae could actually be powered by magnetars because it only says positive comments about the evidence and  research. Astronomers at Queens University have been studying these stars for more than two years now and have found this evidence that contradicts the theory that the brightest supernovae is caused by super-massive stars exploding.

This article serves as a tool to me because it show how adult theories could be wrong as well, for something is called theory or hypothesis, because its an educated guess. I would definitely agree on the author's position, because the astronomers on Queens University show not only strong evidence to support their proposal, but also strong evidence to contradict the proposal said before. Therefore, I definitely agree that the author gave us enough convincing information to support his position. Some of the things this implicates for the future is that later on, when new technology arises, we will be able to know some much more and exact information about our universe.