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- MusicalGenius, on 10/10/2007, -2/+35As Pumba so well phrased it..
"Gee, I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away." - DeskFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -6/+36This is old news, it happened about 400 years ago.
- GibZilla, on 10/10/2007, -6/+24Is that sarcasm? http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/185516main_A-Mira-Full.tif
- bigpete591, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Animation of said star:
http://www.nasa.gov/mov/186071main_V-MiraAnim-Web2.mov - RadicalEdward, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Pft! What are you crazy?! They're fireflies! Fireflies that got stuck up in that big, bluish, black thing.
- Waterrat, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21 Whoa!
Wish the pic was bigger. - RadicalEdward, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14I think our fascination with these things just goes to show how human we are. We love burning, exploding, shiny *****.
- tehbored, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13This is definitely one of the coolest space-related articles I've seen on Digg. It's literally a shooting star.
- lhbaker, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12How many worlds are being destroyed in the wake of Mira? It's like an intersteller Katrina, and those other stars are black people.
- Cuja, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11yeah just go to the NASA site, that thing is so ***** cool. The tail is 30,000 years long!
- RadicalEdward, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Dude. Lion king. Weren't you ever a kid? Where did your childhood go so wrong that you were denied the lion king and thus grew up to be such an ignorant individual?
- Hetman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9The universe is so amazing. It is so beautiful also. I love living in the city, But there is nothing like locking into the sky and seeing a brilliant night. Mans creation is amazing. But the stars are incomprehensible.
- Scynet, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7It actually happened a lot longer time ago.
- lockedon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Thats b-e-a-utiful star!
- HsoKinees, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Lion King or not, Timon and Pumbaa rule :D
- BadAstronomer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Sure it can! The Universe will be around a long, long time from here on out. A lot of things will happen over the next few trillion years. Just because the Universe formed 13.7 billion years ago doesn't mean things won't go on for a looooong time.
- matrixbandit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Thanks for linking to that higher res version. I can't help but noticing that when viewed at full res, it looks like someone applied a pretty heavy median filter to it, probably to compensate for noise.. I kinda wish they hadn't because the edges of everything are all smoothed out and blended as a result.
- jobeats, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4+ Full resolution (10Mb)
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/185516main_A-Mira-Full.tif - holygram, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"The image above is substantially cool. But it’ll take a moment to explain why. Stick with this; you’ll like it."
No, it won't. I can look at that ***** and tell its ***** awesome. - ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Mira-uv-bow-shock-tail-vertical.jpg
- Chris1974, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3My favourite part of the article is the foot note: "*Needless to say, the Earth doesn’t fare well in all this." read the article to see what they are referring to,
- Hetman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I agree with you. I love the city, I love the people around me. Cities seem to show me how different diverse crowds can get along. However the country is amazing. Seeing the stars are amazing. Seeing the milky way is amazing. It is really aostuning to me how we can see the edge of are galacy. All I can type cannot compare to what you really see.
- Akaji, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yep. Started ~30,000 years ago.
- rspeed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Pumbaa, with you, everything is gas.
- noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Why do you want a picture section so bad? It will just end up being an immense waste of time like the video section.
- MusicalGenius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That would take a lot of commitment... Just make a Digg story and do it well enough to be popular enough that you will convince them to ADD a picture section.
This would take less time and MUCH less effort. - tf5bassist, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3haha. Kermlin. I'm just thinking of a governmental agency made up of a bunch of green frog muppets.
with russian accents. - coffeebot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I broke my coccyx in April but it only seems like I have a tail 13 lightyears long
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3It's not really the smog blocking the stars, simply all the light generated from a city will block out your view of all those stars. A different type of pollution, light pollution.
- ketemphor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's 16 light-years long and it took the star ~30,000 years of ejection to form it.
- Cheynne, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Blasphemy! We believe in god! Just kidding, very cool.
- Zaggynl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2'The image at the top shows a star that is undergoing this process right now. Called Mira — "wonderful" — it’s slightly more massive than the Sun, and far older. It has only a short time left — maybe only hundreds of thousands of years, maybe less — '
I for one am jealous at their lifespans. - in2deep, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Great story I enjoyed it!
- EzarKun, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3its things like this which makes me feel so insignificant.
too bad all the smog in the cities block the beautiful stars. which would prolly go and eat up other parts of earth, I am no tree hugger, just saying. - hax0r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If this thing was coming straight at us, would we even see it coming? If it was, there is nothing we could ever do about it, but try to get out of the way.
- AnonymousFan9, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2That takes balls... good luck and Godspeed.
- Scynet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Bad astronomy" was started as a site that published and corrected incorrect astronomical studies. The writers know their stuff, but if you don't know the origins of the name, I guess it can be a bit weird. Just click the About-button on the front page if you want to read more.
- gingerbreadcat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Excellent article. Then again, it's one of my favorite blogs.
As for the star called Mira: "Death is the road to awe." - 2oonhed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1good story. I liked it.
- Propapanda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The dumb ***** on digg can't even use the video and podcast sections properly.
- galacticdoom, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2When are we going to make a creation museum about the galaxy? I'd bet that'd go over really well with the brainwashed americans.
- Akaji, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1He probably grew up playing Grand Theft Auto. The lack of exposure to all things Disney in the 15-and-younger crowd scares me... those were great movies with good values.
- rschaefer8011, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Amazing picture and find by NASA as always. The explanation given however did include mere speculation, purported as fact, along with the probable description. This is not how stars form. No one knows how they do. I wonder why this obviously very smart writer stated that the fragments left behind would become stars. Any reason at all to think this? Maybe. But its only speculation and not a fact (that can be proved). Why report on such a cool find and amidst the description details attempt to pass off your theory of the formation of stars as fact also? Tried to slip it in I guess.
- justinmt7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Awesome
- in2deep, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Cool...space is so interesting....we have no idea of what might lie out there and its just intriguing!
- tearsofmysoul99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm glad I won't be around when the Sun dies
- Ploppyplop, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Wow, excellent explanation... Dugg for finding me a new blog :-)
- Rustafur, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Link to story on NASA's website
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/20070815/ - dukeochutney, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0nice pic
- BadAstronomer, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4That's an interesting idea. Of course, it's not a big deal to just go to the link. Why Digg a link you haven't been to? Unless it's *just* a picture, but in this case, there's like a whole blog entry and everything. :)
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