#You just know some amateur star spotter with a telescope in their back garden caught the whole thing on camera

[phoenixcatch7]

So once more I decide I'd like to make a fic, and thus start doing research because who knows how far my headcanons will be from canon, and again I find surprising things:

This? Is the earth sector. It contains the solar system and a few others. Pretty big, but with all our telescopes today it's all well within reach.

Now, that's a lot of sectors! The universe is a big place! Hundreds of planets and civilisations! So where, in all this mess, do you think krypton will be?

RIGHT NEXT DOOR????

Not even that, it's a lower number! Krypton is closer to the Guardians than we are! We're further in the outskirts of the intergalactic civilisation than krypton??

It's not an empty sector either, far from it! There's at least two other thriving planets in there, one with a peaceful and flourishing green lantern specialising in detecting disasters (I can see why), and another the home of the star sapphires!

(Honestly minus the scattered space debris of what was once an entire hyper advanced species home planet brutally destroyed it sounds a genuinely lovely place to live. A lot more peaceful than its neighbour.)

But krypton is in the Andromeda galaxy... That's so close. The Andromeda galaxy is literally visible from earth to the naked eye. The first recorded photo of it was in the late 1800s. It is THE CLOSEST GALAXY TO THE MILKY WAY.

And superman took a couple decades to travel to earth. Kara took sixty.

Krypton is basically right next to earth and most certainly earth watched it die.

#Idk I always headcanoned krypton as like... Really far out. On the absolute edges of space. Millions of light years from anything else #So this really freaked me out #You just know some amateur star spotter with a telescope in their back garden caught the whole thing on camera #The image quality depending on which irl timeline we're using lol #But even then superman debuted in 1939 twenty years to travel twenty to grow and live that still puts him with the first photo #Never mind that it's been studied and watched for MILLENNIA. #Krypton is always this distant... Ancient thing. Unknowable. A great tragedy that happened long ago only the survivors even know to speak o #WE COULD SEE KRYPTON FROM EARTH #dc comics #superman #clark kent #kal el #supergirl #kara danvers #kara zor el