To: buccaneer81
If it's 7500 light years away, doesn't that mean that it could have exploded 7400 years ago and my grandchildren will see the nova?
Yup!
Could also mean in ten minutes YOU could look outside and see everything much brighter then normal...
21 posted on
12/02/2003 7:25:27 PM PST by
EUPHORIC
(Right? Left? Read Ecclesiastes 10:2 for a definition. The Bible knows all about it!)
To: EUPHORIC
It's always been a weird sense of joy to me to look up at the stars and realize that what I see is history. For all we know, NONE of those stars exists today.
25 posted on
12/02/2003 7:40:49 PM PST by
Dog Gone
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