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A better headline would be, "Is Betelguese about to blow, 500 years ago?"
by rrhyne 16y ago
A better headline would be, "Is Betelguese about to blow, 500 years ago?"
- dmix 16y agoOr better yet "Betelguese might blow in the near future" http://unixronin.livejournal.com/763082.html http://unixronin.livejournal.com/763082.html
- adamesque 16y agoI thought about submitting that post earlier today, but, well, sourcing doesn't get much sketchier than that. My best hope was that some science journalist would actually contact observers at Mauna Kea, as a gut check, but Dr. Plait's dénouement is probably good enough for me.
- btilly 16y agoIn the reference frame of the light we see, it left there a tiny fraction of a second ago. (In fact I believe that most of the delay is due to time spent traversing the atmosphere.)
- jeffcoat 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity