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- Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:40 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant (2009 Jan 31)
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Re: Pigs in Space (APOD 2009 January 31)
Just one observation, the text says "This supernova remnant has an estimated age of about 40,000 years - meaning light from the massive stellar explosion first reached Earth 40,000 years ago." I don't see the logical correlation between the two parts of the sentence. Light from a thing the...