SPINNING WHITE DWARF STARS COULD BE FUTURE SUPERNOVAS: “New research shows that some old stars might be held up by their rapid spins, and when they slow down, they explode as supernovae. Thousands of these ‘time bombs’ could be scattered throughout our Galaxy.” None close, I hope. But wait: “Back in 1998 some astrophysicists claimed a supernova would have to be within within 10 parsecs (30 light years) of Earth to cause us a problem and no star that close to Earth poses will go supernova in the next several million years. But if the original report above is correct in arguing that past methods of searching for supernova precursors aren’t good enough then perhaps some nearby supernova precursors haven’t been identified.”