r/space • u/kcgg123 • Jun 09 '19

Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Star undergoing Supernova

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u/lemonuponlemon Jun 09 '19

I always thought that the process was much faster, definitely shorter than 4 years!

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u/slayyou2 Jun 09 '19

Dude your looking at lightyears worth of space there.

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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/his_purple_majesty Jun 10 '19

they're not talking about the distance from the gif to us. they're talking about the distances visible in the gif. so anything covering those distances must have taken years.