• EGirlEnthusiast
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    42 years ago

    is it from our own point of view or its point of view? other guy said the opposite lol. idk what to believe

    • 0xtero
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      2 years ago

      It’s always from our PoV.
      We have no idea and no way of knowing what’s actually happening 600 ly. away, right now.
      All our measurements are based on the light and radiation we can observe from here. We have no sensors close to it.
      So if the paper is calculating supernova in couple of decades, it means the star actually went supernova 600+ years ago.

      • OOFshoot
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        12 years ago

        Even if we did have a satellite in orbit around Beetlejuice, its data would take just as long to reach us as the light from the star itself.

        This relatively business is annoying. I suggest we just get rid of the whole thing and go back to the ether.

      • EGirlEnthusiast
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        12 years ago

        Ok! Thats what i assumed but the other guy said something else. I should have been able to guess based on the fact that nothing is faster than light, but oh well.

    • Kichae
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      32 years ago

      Astronomy is done from the observer’s point of view.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      I might be absolutely wrong though, I don’t really know anything… I just checked how far away it is… but if it has gone supernova already, then we might have a chance to see it? That would be amazing.