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2. Yes the article did point out this happened 3000 years ago and the light is just now reaching us.

Fri Mar 28, 2025, 02:48 PM

Mar 28

Whatever we’re about to see has already happened. Since this star system of a white dwarf (the dense core of a dead star) and a red supergiant (an expanding cooling star) is 3,000 light-years away, whatever is about to happen did so 3,000 years ago. It’s just that the light is about to reach us. Shocked? Don’t be. Even the sunlight you feel on your skin is eight minutes old. Technically speaking, everything you see is old light — even when you look at the person next to you.

That in itself is pretty awesome.

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Yesterday I read the following article that the T Coronae Borealis "Blaze Star" was going nova last night. [View all] Fla Dem Mar 28 OP

I like waiting for something Frasier Balzov Mar 28 #1

Yes the article did point out this happened 3000 years ago and the light is just now reaching us. Fla Dem Mar 28 #2

Yea, I went looking for it also. Biophilic Mar 28 #3

It's not in the Big Dipper (actually Ursa Major), it's in Corona Borealis. eppur_se_muova Mar 28 #4

Thank You, agree. I was using the Big Dipper as a reference point. Fla Dem Mar 28 #7

It's also a Reoccurring Nova of a Binary Star system. A Red Giant gases flow to it's white drawf.... electric_blue68 Mar 28 #5

Yes, the article from Forbes I provided a link for explained that very well, Fla Dem Mar 28 #6

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