Muppet Supernovae?

[Daylight]

I was looking for muppet pictures on Google when I kept comming across these astronomy pictures. I did some investigating and found that a group of astronomers searching for supernova had named a bunch of them after Muppet characters! Did anyone else know about this?

Here's a list of the supernova they found:
http://www.ctio.noao.edu/~ngss/Data/SNe.html

And here you can see some pictures of the Crazy Harry Supernova:
http://www.ctio.noao.edu/~ngss/ngss4/crazy_harry/Crazy_Harry.subs.html

 

[Fireimps87]

weird

 

[RockSTAR girl]

umm..thats looks, um, really nice

 

[sarah_yzma]

i like it...i guess

Sarah

 

[Daylight]

The pictures are admittedly not very interesting, but I think it's neat that the Muppets have stars named after them. Even though they are stars that have blown up. Crazy Harry most likely blew up his own star himself.

 

[Manda:-D]

Cool!!! There's even a THOG supernova!!! HA!!!! (Gee...Maybe I really AM amused too easily!!!)

 

[sarah_yzma]

hehe!

Sarah

 

[Gonzo]

Hey!

That IS cool! Even cooler is that these weren't discovered in the 1970's, but in the 1999-2000 timeframe; so some astronomers out there are freaks just like us! They need to visit MC.

Quinnnnnnnnn

 

[beaker]

The fact is geeks like us of all ages and societal positions love the Muppets. I mean look at that Opera Swedish Chef/MSN news thing. I dont think there hasnt been a prime time cartoon, sitcom, or game show that hasnt at leats had one Muppet reference.

"Letting Bobby watch those Muppets...Frogs kising Pigs, it just aint right"-King of the Hill

"Hornswaggle? What are you dating, a fraggle?"-Friends

 

[Drtooth]

NO WONDER WHY I KEEP GETTING THOSE PICS!!!!!

I thought it was a freaky art thing named after the Muppets for no reason....

This reminds me of the mars probe and the rocks named after the Cartoon Network... Yogi bear, Scooby Doo...


When the thing crashed into Yogi, it bust me the heck up!