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- s1mph0ny, on 10/10/2007, -15/+156Am I the only person who read that as Death Star?
- Murfshay22, on 10/10/2007, -2/+66That's no moon.
- Garrando, on 10/10/2007, -2/+51By the title I thought that this article would be about Paris Hilton, then I realized she is only dead inside.
- chicken101, on 10/10/2007, -1/+49it's dead, jim.
- falstaff, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.
- swmtscwu, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31Dugg for the inside astronomy joke. Sounds like a fun group to hang out with.
- realyst, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30It's the NEMESIS!!!
- HamHead, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28"So the name Calvera is a bit of an inside joke on our part."
Those wacky astronomers really know how to bring the house down. - Lister169, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20DON'T PANIC. But make sure you know where your towel is just in case.
- longboarder543, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Looks like a Type III Civilization has used up their star and is no doubt headed straight to Sol to use up all of our solar system's resources. EVERYBODY PANIC!!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16seems like they are finding something new space-related everyday
- scheibs14, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16It's a trap!
- Scynet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Still much closer than other neutron stars, and actually rather close in galactic distances.
- maz2331, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11It depends on the size of the star. The sun isn't a particularly large one, so it will run out of core hydrogen and contract. This will ignite the fusion of helium, which is way hotter than fusing hydrogen, so the outer layers of the sun will expand to about the orbit of Earth until it runs out of helium, when it will collapse into a white dwarf. This will slowly cool over the course of tens or hundreds of billion years.
A bigger star will do that process, but after the helium burns out, it will re-expand over and over until it's core is all iron. Iron can't release energy by fusion, so the star will rapidly collapse and layers outside the core will detonate in a massive nuclear explosion that blows the outer layers of the star apart in a supernova, and leave the old core behind as a super dense neutron star.
Even bigger stars do the same, except the core collapses into a black hole. - Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Gwavity. Gwavity is wot bwings us, togethah, today. Gwavity, that bwessed awwangement: a gwaviton, moving as a closed stwing...
- robwicks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9The star was probably shot by the same people who killed Tupac.
- koalbeard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I say this is the battleground where Lord Xenu and the Flying Spaghetti Monster duke it out.
- jake00, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11They named it after a bad guy. Poor little neutron star.
- timlopez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Galactus???
- mz00m, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9I love how whenever I have what I think is a quirky or nerdy reaction to some digg headline, and I go to comment about it... someone always has commented on the exact same thing before me!
- adventflux, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7This is just the universe's way of celebrating the return of Suprnova.org.
- Jargonaut06, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Don't worry, they won't make it here for another 250 - 1000 years.
- csnoke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I'm fairly certain that's where Jesus lives.
- Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9It's a red-shirted star, what did you expect?
- lornefs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Good point, let's start with how far it is (minimun 250 light years);
Football field = 120 yards (including the end zones)
One light year = 5,865,696,000,000 miles or 86,030,168,895,360 football fields!! Now that's far. - squegie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Its the ultimate evil, now we just need Bruce Wills and Milla Jovovich to save us
- snowmanchris, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Don't forget Chris Tucker.
- Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7With all-dead... well, with all-dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Go through their accretion disk and look for loose change. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6"Looks"? The star in the photo has nothing to do with the star in subject. Its just an image to amuse readers.
And "near" apparently means 9.331.200.000.000.000km !!! I thought it was some testicle between the Earth and Moon. - Scynet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6New space-related something is found every second as our telescopes and other instruments sweep the space.
- farrellj, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8It's not dead! It just resting...or pining for the fjords....
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Yeah . . . I could spit on it from my house . . .
- init100, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Except that it is too far away to have any gravitational effect on the Oort cloud.
- chadley384, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Breaking: Putin claims dead star is part of Russia; invites his political opposition to plant flag on it as a sign of goodwill.
- Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"To Blaze!" You heard that dying star! You could not ask for a more noble cause than that.
Sonny, proton-electron matter is the greatest thing in the world, except for a nice GUT--Grand, Unified, Theory of everything-- when the symmetry is nice and explained, and the protostars are ripe. They're so perky. I love that. But that's not what he said! He distinctly said, 'to haze,' And as we all know, to haze means to shed your photosphere. So, you were probably playing binary star system and he cheated... - DrSpud, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8*sigh*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vwnpozWU5M ...just for reference, for those digging me down. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7More people would read it if you told them how many football fields big it is.
- geuisteses, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5could this be the remnants of the supernova that exploded 5 billions years ago that led to the creation of the Sun?
- bromac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6You know, English comes from England.
I think it's Americans that are the variant most of the time. Just because you have the largest collection of English speakers in one place doesn't mean you get to reinvent the bloody language for the rest of us. - Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr06/pr0609.html
The new record holder is nearly 100 million times fainter than the Sun. It is located only 16.2 light-years (4.97 parsecs) from Earth, making DEN 0255-4700 the 48th nearest known system of stars or brown dwarfs. This very reddish object is a third closer to Earth than the next known L dwarf, which is 24 light-years away. The discovery by a team led by Edgardo Costa and Rene Mendez of the Universidad de Chile in Santiago will be published in the September 2006 issue of the Astronomical Journal. - bbschaefer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Wow, yes, I did initially read it as "death star". I'm glad I'm not the only one.
- poolboy82, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I have a format question. Why is it that British based news uses Nasa while most US news use NASA? I just started noticing it a week or so ago and perhaps someone could enlighten me.
- Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5"Nerds...." Says Nerd
- diagonalfish, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Um. Sorry, did you say "sometimes"?
- Motodog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Scanned it over and I thought it was about a Star Wars toy. Guilty.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4On the scale of stars our sun is a very, very, very far cry from "a big mofo". It's tiny in comparison (let the 'like your penis' jokes ensue).
- HunterKiller, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5FOX NEWS UPDATE: Reports confirm that Al Qaeda Terrorists have begun testing their arsenal of dirty bombs by detonating a nearby star. This star is less than 1,000 light years away, and could potentially pose a threat to U.S. soil.
- BufordT, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"The authors estimate that the object is 250 to 1,000 light-years away."
They know that much about it, but can only estimate it's distance from Earth to within 750 light years. 750 light years = 4.40887486 Ă— 10 to the 15th miles (Google) -
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