The Iain Banks novel _Look to Windward_ plays beautifully with this theme. The two stars of an inhabited binary system were detonated 500 years ago as part of a war...and the book is set 500 years later and 500 light years away, where a memorial concert is timed to occur just as the light from the nova-like explosions arrives.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Grimmund <grimmund@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Dan Corrin <dcorrin@rogers.com> wrote:
> Supposedly (there is some dispute) the pillars were destroyed 6000 years ago
> by a supernova. So these would not be so impressive close up.
>
> It seems that there would be ample opportunity for Traveller ships to be
> hired by astrophysicists to travel to a space anomaly to study it close up.
> Some possible risk as well.

Or away from it, if you missed the occurrence when it happened and
want to observe when the wave front rolls through.

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