Visible Nova Will Happen in 2024

[billchao]

I know next to nothing about astronomy but I always find it fascinating.

[iacas]

Do we have anything far enough out (light-weeks away?) and in that could give us the heads up as to when this actually occurred (and thus when the light will reach Earth for us to see it)?

[Ty_Webb]

3 hours ago, iacas said:

Do we have anything far enough out (light-weeks away?) and in that could give us the heads up as to when this actually occurred (and thus when the light will reach Earth for us to see it)?

No - even if we did we wouldn't be able to get the message any faster than the light is traveling here anyway. I haven't watched the video yet and I can't right now, but I'm very curious how they know this is going to happen. There must be some pre-nova event that they've spotted that enables them to predict it going off. I always thought it was like earthquakes though. Very hard to predict. They're there and then they're not.

[iacas]

8 minutes ago, Ty_Webb said:

No - even if we did we wouldn't be able to get the message any faster than the light is traveling here anyway.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

f***ing stupid I am.

[boogielicious]

18 minutes ago, Ty_Webb said:

No - even if we did we wouldn't be able to get the message any faster than the light is traveling here anyway.

What if the message was sent Ludicrous Speed!

[Ty_Webb]

1 hour ago, boogielicious said:

What if the message was sent Ludicrous Speed!

Ah yes - well that is different...