> While SN 1006 did not appear to have such significant effects, a signal of its eruption can be found in nitrate deposits in Antarctic ice.<p>Not heard about this, are there any other signs from supernova we have detected on Earth?
My first thought was "I wonder what it looks like". It looks like this: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/tapestry.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/tapestr...</a>
The article mentions that the event was possibly recorded in the form of petroglyphs[1]. I think that's a fascinating idea, and it reminded me of Dr. Anthony Peratt's[2] research on the recording of prehistoric auroral events, also in the form of petroglyphs[3].<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1006#cite_note-napetro-5" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1006#cite_note-napetro-5</a><p>[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Peratt" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Peratt</a><p>[3] <a href="http://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/PerattTPSv31-2003clr.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/PerattTPSv31-2003c...</a>
> The Chinese astrologer Zhou Keming<p>In the midst of all this wonderful astrology I couldn't help but laugh. Didn't know that Keming was an actual name, brilliant.