if it’s 8K miles away I can just drive there and put it out.
Road Trip!
Light years. (There’s a very good reason why I’m not a court reporter. Fat fingers).
Eight thousand light years is actually fairly close in astronomical terms and if the object did go super nova 8 thousand years ago I would think we are at least in for an interesting light show. The Crab Nebula is the result of a super nova 6,500 light years away and it made quite an impression on observers when its light reached earth around 1054 AD.