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How is it possible to see light from a star that is no longer shining?
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∙ 13y ago
As light can take millions of years to reach us, then some stars we "see" can actually be dead but we are seeing the light from them as they were many years earlier. So yes, it is possible to see light from a star that is no longer shining.
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Use cosmos in a sentence?
A real star, shining out there in the cosmos for light years to come.
Why can you still see stars after they have died?
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Use cosmos in a sentence?
A real star, shining out there in the cosmos for light years to come.
Why can you still see stars after they have died?
The nearest star (other than the Sun) is 4.7 light-years from Earth, meaning it takes 4.7 years for light from that star to reach us. That star could die and we would not know it for 4.7 years. Some stars are billions of light years away, it would be billions of years before we noticed that the star was no longer shining.
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