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From: Sam Wormley on 19 Nov 2009 02:03
Yousuf Khan wrote:
> Sam Wormley wrote:
>> At 250,000 light-years away, you did you write "within Milky Way"?
>>
>> Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>> Cosmic burp may end in star's suicide: Scientific American
>>> "V445 Pup lies 250,000 light-years away from Earth. Its earlier
>>> outburst, first spotted in November 2000, is the subject of a report
>>> this week in the Astrophysical Journal. "
>>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cosmic-burp-may-end-in-stars-suicid-2009-11
>
>
> Yeah, I was thinking the same thing before I posted the links. 250,000
> ly's would be 2.5 times larger than the diameter of the galactic disk.
> However, I was willing to consider that it may have been one of the halo
> stars of the MW. It was too far away to be in the disk of the MW, but
> not far enough away to be part of another local group galaxy, such as
> Andromeda.
>
> However, it seems like it was a typo on Sci-Am's part.
>
> Yousuf Khan


http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=V445+Pup&jsessionid=171B8FC3A3F5DB4726EB6826E6A5B42C
http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/Novae/npup00.html

http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0004-637X/684/2/1366

Estimated distance 3.5 kpc > dist > 6.5 kpc
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