I just read an article on CNN entitled sensationally "Star explodes halfway across universe."
Two lines down, they mention that this star is 7.5 billion light years away. They mention that this was able to be seen from earth. What is wrong with this headline?
It hit me right away-- if we are seeing on EARTH something that is billions of light years away, that's OLD NEWS for sure!!! "Explodes" in the current tense implies a current event... certainly this a case where this is unquestionably NOT current news.
Truly it is amazing to see something that happened 7.5 billion years ago. Before our earth was a twinkle in the eye of the universe!!
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