Our sun so you know will never become a super nova...
And there have been occurences where a supernova was visable without the aid of a telescope. I'm not sure when it was exactly, but there was a supernova sometime in the past 1000 years that was visible even in the day. I don't remember, but it might have given off more light than the sun for a while.
Quote: "like the human race will still be alive 2 billion years from now."
By then we'll have evolved into the awesomeness race...
Frankly I'll be kind of surprised if we don't kill ourselves off a bit less than 2 billion years before that.
The scale of the universe, heck, just our solar system, is really too much to wrap our heads around. We always skim over the emptiness because there's just too much of it. That's not to say we can't imagine or understand the universe, just that the vastness is pretty inconceiveble for us when try and think of the scale accurately.
Quote: "the eyepeice of the hubble telescope"
What eye piece? And light doesn't reach Hubble any faster. And also, Hubble is not the best telescope...
edit:Heh, I just got this image of an astronaut clinging to the Hubble Telescope looking though an eyepiece
