Assignment #1
Due: Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Name: ______________________________________
Remember that they didn't have telescopes, cameras, or any other advanced technology, so that the observations had to have been simple (or even metaphorical). Remember too, that the process of star formation is excruciatingly slow, so that they would never have witnessed the birth of a star.
Express your answer in years (there are 3.16x107 seconds in one year).