The BBC reports: "Star dies in monstrous explosion". The Headline and everything else in the story is using the wrong tense. The star in question is some 240 light years from earth. That means that the star exploded 240 years ago and the light is just reaching us now. Scientists are watching another star, expecting it to explode... guess what? It's already gone. When you look into space, you are looking into the past. I sometimes wonder if the star I'm seeing is still there. Well, one of them isn't and it's been gone for sometime.