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When Stars Attack!

• Supernova explosions: the death of massive stars
• Cosmic WMD: supernova explosions near Earth
• How would we know? supernova debris found as live radioactivity in the deep ocean
• Implications and future directions
• Movies and Talks
• Links to more information

More information

• Writeup in Illinois LAS News Nature News, Physics News Update, RedNova, Deutsche Welle, wissenshaft.de, space.com; Nov 2004
  Science & Spirit mention
• Munich AMS group writeup
• University of Illinois news tip
• New Scientist, July 10 1999, has a brief description and a map showing where the first crust was found
• Outline of a discussion for Astronomy 230: Extraterrestrial Life
• Blurb in the Champaign News-Gazette, Aug 1999

• The recent high-resolution confirmation of live iron-60 appears in Knie, Korschinek, Faestermann, Dorfi, Rugel,and Wallner, Physical Review Letters 93, 171103 (2004).
• The new results are used to determine the supernova distance, and to probe supernova nuclear reactions, in Fields, Hochmuth, and Ellis The Astrophysical Journal 621, 902-907 (2005) [astro-ph/0410525].
• Reivew of terrestrial and gamma-ray evidence for nearby supernovae: Fields New Astronomy Reviews 48, 119-123 (2004).
• The first evidence for live iron-60 in a deep-ocean crust is reported in Knie, Korschinek, Faestermann, Wallner, Scholten, & Hillenbrandt 1999 Physical Review Letters, 83, 18
• The initial Knie et al results are discussed in Fields & Ellis 1999 New Astronomy , 4, 419
• The first prediction of live radioactivities as the signature of nearby supernovae can be found in Ellis, Fields, & Schramm 1996 Astrophysical Journal, 470, 1227