...maybe. A massive supernovae about 150 times the size of the sun exploded last year. This is the biggest exploding star ever observed. "Of all exploding stars ever observed, this was the king," says Alex Filippenko, one of the Nasa backed astronomers observing the phenomenon.
Scientists say the exploding star, SN 2006gy, is similar to a huge star in our own galaxy, Eta Carinae. According to scientists it is possible that Eta Carinae will explode at anytime: "We don't know for sure if Eta Carinae will explode soon, but we had better keep a close eye on it just in case," says Mario Livio, of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
The explosion would truly be a spectacle. Dave Pooley, at the University of California at Berkeley said "it would be so bright that you would see it during the day, and you could even read a book by its light at night."
Personally, I would absolutely love to see something like this, would really make life worthwile.
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