Website review: Binary &039;deathstar&039; has Eart...
blondieluvsthis discovered this in Astronomy
•12 reviews since Mar 4, 2008
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•cosmosmagazine.com/node/1878
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Culturalove rated 2 months ago- Interesting article.
- cermie rated 3 months ago
- Ooh, don't humans just love doom and gloom end of the world scenarios.
- tree-lights rated 4 months ago
- I watched a History Channel special (ah, so many of them too) about the top eight ways the world would end. One of the ways was a gamma ray burst from a star going supernova.
- markchenjd rated 4 months ago
- This almost feels like it should be in humor. Scientists discover binary star system that appears to line up with the planet giving us a beautiful view of the spiral pattern. Except, when these systems go super nova, they release a an extremely destructive beam of gamma radiation. We're basically looking down the barrel of a cosmic death ray. That said, scientists are still studying the system to determine how close we are to the axis of the system. Regardless, and I can't believe they waited to the end of the article to mention this, we still have hundreds of thousands of years before this system is expected to go super nova.
- michelle5928 rated 4 months ago
- A spectacular, rotating binary star system is a ticking time bomb, ready to throw out a searing beam of high-energy gamma rays - and Earth may be right in the line of fire. Astronomers at the University of Sydney, in Australia, first discovered the unusual and beguilingly beautiful star system eight years ago in the Constellation Sagittarius. One member of the pair is a highly unstable star known as a Wolf-Rayet, thought to be the final stage of stellar evolution to precede a cataclysmic supernova explosion. "When it finally explodes as a supernova, it could emit an intense beam of gamma rays coming our way", said Peter Tuthill, lead researcher of the team that report their findings in the current Astrophysical Journal.
- couriergrrrrl rated 5 months ago
- This thing is coming to kill us all!
- rwartaur rated 5 months ago
- cool
- delamettrie rated 5 months ago
- Deathstar on path to collide with earth, mass extinction a possibility
- shewitt-au rated 5 months ago
- From page: "A spectacular, rotating binary star system is a ticking time bomb, ready to throw out a searing beam of high-energy gamma rays - and Earth may be right in the line of fire."
- erithbabalon rated 5 months ago
- So.. umm.. what'd be good for deflecting death star rays eh? A tin foil lined dustbin lid? ...No?
