A relly of mine was asking & mentioned this article to watch, the event sounds genuine, though Im skeptical about world class astronomers using the VLT watching it in real time later in 2013, thinking such an event would take 10's, 100's or even 1,000's of yrs ? ?
Anyway, an interesting event none the less , ,
http://www.space.com/16332-milky-way...013-video.html