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The Spitzer Telescope reveals the Carina nebula, 200 light years across, approx. 8000 light years from Earth, shredded by ultraviolet radiation and winds from a behemoth of a star. Video date- July 20, 2007. Source- http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/features/hiddenuniverse/index.shtml#20061218 more info- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_Nebula

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  • So if we see it explode tomorrow, it means the explosion actually already happened 7000-8000 light years ago? That's incredible to even think about...

  • They mean that Sirius looks the brightest with the naked eye, standing on earth. Not brightest in absolute terms.

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  • @marcusFOREVER Thanks for that. :) I'm glad I have that cleared up.

  • @AAMLfan 7000-8000 years ago.. That is time measured in seconds, hours etc.

    Light year = distance that light travels in one year, can be measured in meters, miles etc.

  • @AAMLfan Correction 7000-8000 years, not lightyears, a lightyear or LY is a distance not time.

  • Amazing video

  • Everyone here is RETARDED... Light-years is a measurement of DISTANCE not time.

  • Nice music. What is it? thanks.

  • @ClubPenguinMovies123 Uhh...no. Firstly it's 5000 LY away, and secondly the gravity of such a "small" black hole is neglible at this distance. It's in fact just 30 times stronger than that of the Sun. The Black Hole will have much less gravity because in the event of VYCM going supernova, or hypernova, a lot, and I mean a lot, of its mass is going to be ejected.

  • VY Canis Majoris is supposed to explode within 1 million years. When it does explode, and if it turns into a black hole, we most likely will be sucked in because its only 4500 light years away, which is like a next door neighbor comparing how big the universe is.

  • @labigbossssssssss We are only 7500 light yrs. away, which is in our back yard comparing to how big the universe is.....

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