• Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    This is saying good morning to everyone at midnight levels of pedantic. Astronomers need a common reference frame for discussing timing, and the reference frame they use is “when it’s observed at Earth”.

    Because nothing else allows for coherent organization, discussion, or education.

    A nuclear fusion event occurred in the accretion disk of a stellar remnant 2600 years ago or so. An astronomical event known as a nova will occur in the sky sometime this summer.