So really, the number already dead but still shining in our sky is very small *. That may sound like a lot, but the Milky Way has something like 200 billion stars in it. On average, very roughly, only two or three stars are expected to go supernova in the galaxy per century, so the light from a few thousand of such explosions is already on its way here. I’d wager this aphorism about stars being already dead is wrong even with a decent telescope the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years across, and only a few stars in it have a shorter lifespan than that. Kris, still fully aware of what’s going on around them, silently screamed out in pain as their hand tore into their chest for the second time that evening. And at a distance of less than 10,000 light-years, those are not terrible odds that, in a sense, it’s already gone and we just don’t know it yet.īut that’s the exception, with the vast majority of stars still merrily fusing away, lighting up the galaxy. These quotes, from Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, perfectly demonstrate the way darkness and light are used as metaphors in English (and many other languages), with darkness suggesting ignorance, evil and unhappiness and light signifying knowledge, purity and happiness. Let go Let go Kris pushed through that initial barrier of darkness, but in their attempt to confront the darkness of their mind, their physical strength relented. It may not go off for another 50,000 years, but it might tonight. It’s on the edge of exploding in the 1840s it underwent a massive paroxysm that was just short of a supernova event. I can think of very few exceptions, though Eta Carinae fits the bill.
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