Amazing, Beautiful, Incomprehensible: A New View of An Ancient Supernova

I have mentioned before that I love astronomical photography, and I think that scientific pictures of space—like those from the Hubble telescope—will go down as some of the most remarkable imagery of our time.
    But I have never seen anything more thrilling, or incomprehensible, as the image here. It shows a supernova—an exploding star—that was first glimpsed on earth some 436 years ago.
     Apparently, scientists have observed light from the supernova that was delayed on its trip to earth by dust particles. Or something like that. (Go here to read the story, and if anyone cares to attempt an explanation of this phenomenon, please be my guest.)
     All I know is that this image, put together by some technician with an eye for beauty, is simply amazing.—David Schonauer

Comments

[Larry James]

I have my own explanation for the delayed light from the supernova .

Remember the measurements of light speed made by Michelson and Morley ?

their tests proved something which defies Human logic . that is that the speed of light is always 186,282 Miles per second as it compares to the observer , which I believe is the reciever of the light being measured .

This implies that the speed of the observer is effecting the speed of the light because the light is always the same when compared to the observer .

As we know the earth is constantly in motion around the sun and as the sun and earth move around the galaxy , and this is changing the speed of light which is moving across the universe toward the earth .

When the earth is moving away from the source of light , the light moves toward the earth at the speed of light but with the speed of the earth added to it .

The way to look into the past is to move toward the object we want to look at as it was in the past .

We can always get another replay as our motion around the sun changes our speed and direction .

We might be effecting the speed of this light over long distances and for millions of light years , causing a replay or a look ahead of what we already have observed as our speed changes .

It could be that the light has no sense of time and no time exists for light , but it has rules for speed according to the place where it will end up .

I'm not an astronomer or a physisist ,
so Make up your own mind , on this .