What is the point of this post? Astronomers universally agree that it has already exploded. They just thought it was more than 700 years ago - roughly the delay on which we would watch the event. Turns out it was more recently than that and the light from the supernova event has yet to reach us.
See, somehow at around 4,262,003,395,558,110 miles away it gets hard to guess exactly how much helium a star has left, especially when it's a fucked up star that doesn't always burn the same temperature. But it for sure didn't have much more than 700 years worth left, 700 years ago. It has already blown up, it's just hard to guess when that happened exactly until we actually see it.
BMN003 0 points 13 hours ago
What is the point of this post? Astronomers universally agree that it has already exploded. They just thought it was more than 700 years ago - roughly the delay on which we would watch the event. Turns out it was more recently than that and the light from the supernova event has yet to reach us.
See, somehow at around 4,262,003,395,558,110 miles away it gets hard to guess exactly how much helium a star has left, especially when it's a fucked up star that doesn't always burn the same temperature. But it for sure didn't have much more than 700 years worth left, 700 years ago. It has already blown up, it's just hard to guess when that happened exactly until we actually see it.