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[FDN] Tatooine's twin suns - coming to a planet near you
will be really cool if it's within any of our lifetime's though. or course by then, we may have the capacity to leave the solar system and experience these things of our own will.
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a hundred years is a blip on a galactical body's lifetime compared to human's life time.
Originally Posted by SomeDooD  Yes... |
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~1300 years ago:
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Originally Posted by Siigari Isn't this star some hundreds of light years away? If so, aren't we seeing the past? |
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Some experts have speculated Betelgeuse’s explosion may cause a neutron star or result in the formation of a black hole approximately 1300 light years from Earth |
Already knew this.
There is the possability that it will cook us with gamma radiation, but that is unlikly because it emits most of it from its poles, and we are not in the path.
There is the possability that it will cook us with gamma radiation, but that is unlikly because it emits most of it from its poles, and we are not in the path.
Hasn't this been know for ages?
I've always wanted to see Betelgeuse go off as a nova but I doubt I'll be that lucky, would be nice to see the bright as day nights for a month or so
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I've always wanted to see Betelgeuse go off as a nova but I doubt I'll be that lucky, would be nice to see the bright as day nights for a month or so
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And if we still end up with odds comparable to having your pocket Ace beaten the snot out of it, it will be swift I can guarantee, and that doesn't take a rocket scientist.
Originally Posted by DuckieHo Odds are that we will be fine. |
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They say that we will for x amount of time, have two suns (in theory), just like Tatooine (from Star Wars)
Originally Posted by purduepilot Cool news, but what the heck does this have to do with Star Wars? 
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Well... if our atmosphere partially cooks off or reacts..... it could be a slow death to Earth as we know it.
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Originally Posted by MagicBox And if we still end up with odds comparable to having your pocket Ace beaten the snot out of it, it will be swift I can guarantee, and that doesn't take a rocket scientist. |
Well... if our atmosphere partially cooks off or reacts..... it could be a slow death to Earth as we know it.
It's good to hear that the 2012 doomsday idiots have something else to "confirm" their predictions. I swear, if I meet someone in real life who thinks that crap is real, I might just kick them in the throat.
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I thought gamma emissions like that happened during formation rather than supernovae.
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Originally Posted by alltoasters Already knew this. There is the possability that it will cook us with gamma radiation, but that is unlikly because it emits most of it from its poles, and we are not in the path. |
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Last I looked, Betelguese was too far away to stand out from other stars. So, for x amount of time, we will have... one additional point of light in the sea of stars we already have...
This line gets to me:
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Anyhoo, perhaps I don't quite understand how a star going supernova from 1300 light years away can possibly appear as a full sun in our atmosphere, but at best, won't it appear as a slightly brighter star during that time? I could imagine that over the blackness of space, the relative brightness from the star going nova might be significant against the general lack of light when you're not near a neighboring sun--but given the light flux from our sun, which is only like, what, 13 light minutes away, the light density from a star 1300 light years away going nova--after the light disperses so significantly--that it really would be perceptible to us in any extent, even at night, despite the fact that it might be "tens of million times brighter than our sun" is for a brief period of time... But this will look nothing like what appears in Star Wars, as the author likens it to...
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Really? The second biggest star in the UNIVERSE? I didn't realize that we had charted out the entire universe...
Anyhoo, perhaps I don't quite understand how a star going supernova from 1300 light years away can possibly appear as a full sun in our atmosphere, but at best, won't it appear as a slightly brighter star during that time? I could imagine that over the blackness of space, the relative brightness from the star going nova might be significant against the general lack of light when you're not near a neighboring sun--but given the light flux from our sun, which is only like, what, 13 light minutes away, the light density from a star 1300 light years away going nova--after the light disperses so significantly--that it really would be perceptible to us in any extent, even at night, despite the fact that it might be "tens of million times brighter than our sun" is for a brief period of time... But this will look nothing like what appears in Star Wars, as the author likens it to...
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