That's not entirely true. I keep having to remond people of this. Everytrhing you see in the sky that comes from outside our own solar system is millions if not billions of miles away. It takes many years for the light to reach us. What this means is that everything you see out there happened a long time ago. The entire universe could disappear and we would not see it for at least a hundred years. The light from this new Suprenova could be coming from a thousand light years away and very likely isn't even there anymore.

"Hours after it exploded?????"

More like 21 million years after it exploded.  The most surprising aspect of this horrible example of very bad science reporting is that it wasn't written by R. Klein.

Where is HELL do you find these idiots?