Like ants nesting on a river bank, some only live a few days. A colony could live for many ant generations on a riverbank but when a big flood comes their entire world is wiped out.

  • dan1101@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    Looks like closest white dwarf is 8.6 light years away. How would that work, would the light from the supernova get here before the radiation/matter/whatever wipes us out? With the star exploding in more or less a 360-degree sphere how much would even hit our solar system?