Location of Krypton, Superman's destroyed home planet, "found"

http://www.space.com/18348-neil-tyso...on-planet.html

A prominent astrophysist named Neil DeGrasse Tyson has pinned down a real location for where Krypton, Superman's destroyed home planet, would be.

According to Tyson, Krypton was located in the southern constellation of Corvus (the Crow), orbiting the red dwarf star LHS 2520, which is 27.1 light-years away from Earth. He did this exploration at the request of DC Comics, who decided to run a story about Superman's search for his home planet.

Now, I would have to wonder: if Krypton is 27.1 light-years away from Earth, then how exactly did the baby Kal-El get here so fast, and if his rocket ship didn't travel at the speed of light, then what exactly prevented him from aging?

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DC comics pins Krypton to the star map | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

I wouldn't be surprised if his baby ship had some sort of warp technology.

Warp drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The basic idea of warp drive is its capacity to travel several times faster than "the speed of light" through a process by which the matter surrounding the vessel's exterior is literally warped in order to make the universe smaller in its projection and larger in its wake. So Krypton being located 27 lightyears away would not require Superman's pod to traverse the myriad galaxies for 27 years. Say he was a newborn when put into the device. If the vessel traveled at a rate of 9 lightyears per Julian year (our calendar year), he would be about three years old by the time he reached our galaxy. Of course, I'm just eye-shifting here.

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DC comics pins Krypton to the star map | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

I wouldn't be surprised if his baby ship had some sort of warp technology.

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Already stated (in that issue no less) that he got to Earth through a wormhole. I think I geeked out harder than I have in a while when I saw Neil DeGrasse Tyson in that issue.

Since superman can fly around the world fast enough to make it go back in time it's possible the people of crypton have developed ftl technology or someone was under the ship pedaling the generator to the engines REALLY hard