The Crab Nebula is 6,500 LIGHT YEARS from Earth. If the flares we are now observing left the Crab Nebula 6,500 years ago, we actually have NO idea what is happening there NOW! What’s happening there NOW will not become visible on Earth for 6,500 years! I think LONG before that, the scriptures of Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation will have come to pass, and The Redeemed will be going sightseeing to such locales as the Crab Nebula on Day Trips! ;oD
Turns out it’s only 5,600 light years away. :’)
INDEED.