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re: Star in Nearby Galaxy goes Supernova - visible with small telescope
Posted on 5/24/23 at 11:23 am to greygoose
Posted on 5/24/23 at 11:23 am to greygoose
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Light travels at 168000 miles per SECOND A light year is how far light travel in a year. The star that went supernova is 21 MILLION light years away.
The one statistic that put the speed of light into perspective for me was that light can travel around the earth 7 times in one second. Just say 1 Mississippi out loud and think about something going around the entire planet 7x compared to how long it takes us to travel just short distances.
Looking at the OP image and thinking about a star with a size we can't comprehend, that has an age we can't comprehend, at a distance we can't comprehend, exploding with a violence we can't comprehend, and thinking we really matter in this universe seems silly
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Posted on 5/25/23 at 11:32 pm to Corso
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about a star with a size we can't comprehend, that has an age we can't comprehend, at a distance we can't comprehend, exploding with a violence we can't comprehend, and thinking we really matter in this universe
The vastness of space is so incomprehensible. It takes me 24 hours just to get to Wyoming
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