Generic reply to every other comment on this thread. Its 190 light years away. That's close. That means that its light has only taken a bit less than 200 year

Generic reply to every other comment on this thread. Its 190 light years away. That's close. That means that its light has only taken a bit less than 200 years to reach us, compared to the millions and billions of years we see when looking at distant galaxies. The star has been around for 13 some odd billion years. Its very unlikely that it finally exploded in the last 190 years. As for comments about universal expansion, no simultaneous events happening, yada yada, none of that applies nor has anything to do with an old-ass star that's literally on our doorstep. I'm not going to get into a physics debate right now, but suffice it to say that if you were here and I was there (somewhere around the star), the light from both stars would be 190 years old to each of us. You and I would comfortably be existing in the universe at the same moment as long as we weren't travelling at relativistic speeds. For a closer-to-home example, imagine that I am sitting at my desk in my office. (I am.) And you are currently reading this in the car or on MUNI moving at 30-60 mph. Are you going to say that I, or you, don't currently exist at the same moment on the same planet or even the same city (San Francisco) because you're going slightly faster than I am?