This is pretty slick. Dr. Megan Argo explains the discovery of a jet of radio energy from a supernova in the form of a short Doctor Who story. (The real version will appear in Nature magazine as "A mildly relativistic radio jet from the normal Type Ic Supernova 2007gr".)
"You see that one?" he said, pointing to a large red star to one side of the cluster. "It's just one ordinary star doing what it does but, any minute now, for a tiny fraction of time, it will become brighter than this entire galaxy! The explosion will be visible in the skies of thousands of species across hundreds of galaxies. To most of them it's just another transient star, but not you humans, oh no! Scientists on your planet point as many telescopes as they can at it. They even give it a name: 2007gr."
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