Guest Star ~Supernova Birth of the Crab Nebula~ by Abysimus

Fractal • Landscape • posted on Sep 07, 2010

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From the Chinese Sung-shih [Annals, of the Sung Dynasty] (Astronomical Treatise, chapter 56). "On the 1st year of the Chi-ho reign period, 5th month, chi-chou (day) [July 4, 1054], a guest star appeared approximately several inches to the south-east of Tian-kuan [Aldebaran]. After a year and more it gradually vanished." The event is also depicted in Anasazi Glyph art. This is widely assumed the supernova event that birthed what we now know as the Crab Nebula. The city is the Court of Kublai Khan as described in the journals of Marco Polo, roughly 200 years after the event. Created in Ultra Fractal. City is derived from a 4D Hypercomplex Julia Hypernion formula.