You misunderstand either me or the article you cited. The latter states that there are three stages to the supernova remnant. (The “SNR.”) While the third is the only stage of the three that takes millions of years, what I was talking about was how long a star takes to become a supernova in the first place, which is to say, prior to stage 1 of the three stages of SNRs. So the fact that only stage 3 SNRs last millions of years has no bearing whatsoever on how long stars shine before going supernova, which can be billions of years in the case of stars only slightly above the Chandrasekhar limit. And yet some of those stars have obliged us by blowing up, which means either that they have been shining for a lot longer than 6000 years, or The Creator created them just ready to explode, as well as all the light-years of light, between us and them, of the pending explosion. Just to deceive us?