Solved: You are flying your personal rocketcraft at 0.90c

Chapter 36, Problem 36.49

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You are flying your personal rocketcraft at 0.90c from Star A toward Star B. The distance between the stars, in the stars reference frame, is 1.0 ly. Both stars happen to explode simultaneously in your reference frame at the instant you are exactly halfway between them. Do you see the flashes simultaneously? If not, which do you see first, and what is the time difference between the two?

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