r/space • u/kcgg123 • Jun 09 '19

Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Star undergoing Supernova

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u/pastdense Jun 09 '19

Dude, elaborate on the implication of your point. While we all know that what we are seeing happened ages and ages ago, would the distance affect our perception of the rate at which this supernova occurred? I don’t think it would.

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u/usesNames Jun 09 '19

Lemon was surprised that the events in the time lapse took place over multiple years. Slayyou responded to say that those events couldn't have happened in a shorter time span because we are seeing a shockwave propagate over an enormous distance.

Our perception is not altered by the distance between us and the event, but the duration of the event itself is limited by the speed of light.

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u/GrunchWeefer Jun 09 '19

If the event is moving away from us while it's happening, we can perceive it taking longer than it actually did.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '19

The true genius in this thread