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To: NormsRevenge

Not to sound like a ditz, but does this mean that this happened 7.5 billion years ago and we are just able to see it now?


14 posted on 03/22/2008 10:49:09 AM PDT by Aggie Mama
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To: Aggie Mama
Yup. That star lit off 2.5 billion years before this planet was so much as a dust bunny, and the radiation from the explosion is just now arriving.


27 posted on 03/24/2008 4:22:03 AM PDT by Viking2002 (I hope the AG pounds the Mann Act up Spitzer's ass with a sharp stick.)
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