Wait. It took them until 2021 to find this? Wouldn’t it have blown like light years ago? A thousand years ago? A million or two? ;)
Beautiful, either way. We have had some gorgeous night skies this late Spring, because we’re in a drought. No clouds, no rain, but clear skies. ;)
In August, I can see the Milky Way from my front porch, and it’s really something to see when you have no light ‘pollution’ to contend with.
You are very lucky. I use to see many stars when I was about 10 miles from Minneapolis, Minn. When I would travel maybe 20 miles further away the stars were even more numerous.
Another nova, another civilization nearby gets zapped by all the cosmic rays. One day poof as the rays hit. It will be like the tv show “Life After People”.