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To: NormsRevenge
If it's 7500 light years away, doesn't that mean that it could have exploded 7400 years ago and my grandchildren will see the nova?
10 posted on 12/02/2003 6:48:55 PM PST by buccaneer81
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To: buccaneer81
If it's 7500 light years away, doesn't that mean that it could have exploded 7400 years ago and my grandchildren will see the nova?

Yep.

13 posted on 12/02/2003 6:57:35 PM PST by Capitalist Eric (To be a liberal, one must be mentally deranged, or ignorant of reality.)
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To: buccaneer81
If it's 7500 light years away, doesn't that mean that it could have exploded 7400 years ago and my grandchildren will see the nova?

Yup!

Could also mean in ten minutes YOU could look outside and see everything much brighter then normal...

21 posted on 12/02/2003 7:25:27 PM PST by EUPHORIC (Right? Left? Read Ecclesiastes 10:2 for a definition. The Bible knows all about it!)
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