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cool 2 suns, might get a sun tan in Scotland now ,,
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Actually for our hemisphere, it'll be more like two moons ;]
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pfft, oh well back to the sun beds lmao
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Maybe this is the surprise NGD talked about? We'll have all sorts of "close call" quests and quests to locate bits of galactic debris. Good times. ~Sylvae Blackwood
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Or it could come as a gamma ray burst, ionize our ozone layer, and destroy all life on earth. But even if that did happen, who really knows when?
I do love how the media keeps portraying stuff happening in the stars as being "right now breaking" news. Anything that we observe of Betelgeuse happened at least 500 years ago....
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at least 500? I'd say millions! TRILLIONS! :P
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its about 640 light years away so it wont even cause us any problems at all
http://io9.com/5738542/earth-may-soon-have-a-second-sun |
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Now if it were to collapse in a relaxed and conservative manner (ie a boring supernova) it would just be a pretty light show from here, but a gamma ray burst is about as violent an "ending" as you can get. Remember how pulsars are detected by bursts of X-Rays as a neutrino (ie. already collapsed star) sheds mass? A GRB is like that, only from a collapsing star (ie. much more energy), and more or less instantaneous rather than continuous. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...003/10apr_grb/ describes the observation of the closest GRB recorded thus far, it brushed our ionosphere and caused radio VLF blackout / LF interference from 2 billion light years away, or several orders of magnitude further than Betelgeuse. If we were directly in its path.... But it's a big sky, moreso if you're trying to find Earth (or even Sol) from Betelgeuse then the other way around. Also, given the magnitude and mass of Betelgeuse, a neat and tidy explosion is far more likely than a messy extremely brightly shining lance of boom. EDIT: Apologies, I read some reports wrong Don't know where I got VLF blackout from. Look at http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/2176.gcn3 for report of measured effects of GRB030329 on LF radio transmission and http://vlf.stanford.edu/research/gam...cts-ionosphere for pretty graphs related to a lower magnitude event.
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So.... I expect to get some much better shots than I got of McNaught when it was nearby.
I wonder where my tripod got to....
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