On Jul 16, 8:26*am, wrote:
"The brightest explosion of a star ever seen
temporarily blinded a satellite set up to watch
such events, astronomers said on Wednesday."

See:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100715/...us_space_burst

Imagine what the nearby Sirius(B) did to us, as of just 65 million
years ago.

~ BG