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How close can you be to a supernova? before things get ugly (www.scientificamerican.com)

submitted 10 months ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/astronomy@lemmy.world

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The article says

a supernova would have to be less than about 160 light-years from Earth to inflict this sort of damage.

and links to this source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.11622

They should've led with that, but you know writers 🙄😄

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[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

The closest star that could go supernova is IK Pegasi at around 150 light-years away, but it's actually moving away from us which is pretty intersting cosmic insurance policy.

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