Sun-like? Hardly.
V838 Monocerotis (the remant star) is 5 to 10 times as massive as the Sun. The progenitor was probably a supergiant 65 times as massive as the Sun.
The system of which it is a part could be as young as 4 million years.
There are a few different theories about what caused the outburst but none of them apply to anything that might happen to the Sun. I won't be losing
any sleep over this one.
www.absoluteastronomy.com...
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Topic started on 19-11-2009 @ 10:48 PM by 12GaugePermissionSlip
Star Goes Rogue in Untimely Collision
By Ray Villard | Wed Nov 18, 2009 02:06 AM ET
It's a solid doomsday prediction that in about 5 billion years the dying sun will expand as a bloated red giant and engulf the Earth.
But imagine if in just a few weeks the middle-aged sun suddenly ballooned out to the orbit of Saturn and immediately vaporized Earth and most of the other planets in the solar system! And, even before this happened, imagine that every morning you awoke the sun was ever more sweltering until it began evaporating the oceans, spontaneously starting forests ablaze, and melting asphalt!
This sounds like the stuff of a far-out science fiction movie. But astronomers think that they actually witnessed such an even in 2002. A sun-like star on the edge of our galaxy abruptly grew 600,000 times brighter in a few weeks and ballooned 1,000 times its diameter.
Read the whole article here: news.discovery.com...
By Ray Villard | Wed Nov 18, 2009 02:06 AM ET
It's a solid doomsday prediction that in about 5 billion years the dying sun will expand as a bloated red giant and engulf the Earth.
But imagine if in just a few weeks the middle-aged sun suddenly ballooned out to the orbit of Saturn and immediately vaporized Earth and most of the other planets in the solar system! And, even before this happened, imagine that every morning you awoke the sun was ever more sweltering until it began evaporating the oceans, spontaneously starting forests ablaze, and melting asphalt!
This sounds like the stuff of a far-out science fiction movie. But astronomers think that they actually witnessed such an even in 2002. A sun-like star on the edge of our galaxy abruptly grew 600,000 times brighter in a few weeks and ballooned 1,000 times its diameter.
Read the whole article here: news.discovery.com...
reply posted on 19-11-2009 @ 11:52 PM by InfaRedMan
Originally posted by Phage
Sun-like? Hardly.
V838 Monocerotis (the remant star) is 5 to 10 times as massive as the Sun. The progenitor was probably a supergiant 65 times as massive as the Sun. The system of which it is a part could be as young as 4 million years.
There are a few different theories about what caused the outburst but none of them apply to anything that might happen to the Sun. I won't be losing any sleep over this one.
www.absoluteastronomy.com...
Way to bring things back into perspective as always Phage!
IRM
reply posted on 20-11-2009 @ 12:08 AM by TheWalkingFox
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Well, it's a star. The sun is also a star. That makes it sun-like. Don't you see?
Well, it's a star. The sun is also a star. That makes it sun-like. Don't you see?
reply posted on 20-11-2009 @ 12:13 AM by Phage
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The way things have been lately, a little activity would be welcome. Daddy Sol has been taking quite a nap.
The way things have been lately, a little activity would be welcome. Daddy Sol has been taking quite a nap.
reply posted on 20-11-2009 @ 12:34 AM by Tyxquarra Xxxendra HoTTch
Christians say the World will be destroyed in fire... But i say, Bull
Our sun, in comparison to other old stars, is in my opinion very young and very stable. I wouldnt worry my fuzzy little head over it too much. Id worry more about NASA being so stupid as to bomb the moon (which will have disastrous consiquenses) and then making up a crap story that theyre doing it to find water.
Bombing the moon = deadly weather on Earth. The Moon is resposible for the push and pull of the tides, due to the Moon's
magnetic feilds (Or something like that, my memory is terrible) so maybe THAT would also explain the weird bird behavior (sinc they rely of the
Earth's Magnetic-poles for direction and the Moon's megnetism effecting the tides etc... its all connected in one way or other.) But to Bomb the
moon and say it for the searc for water? They dont deserve to call themselve's scientists. Who knows, maybe they found oil on the moon and their
bombing it like Bush did to other countries
OR, maybe they know something else, like Moon men declaring war against us? To me it makes more sense, because if you want to search for water, you dont BOMB for it, you dig for it. And about the sun EXPLODING. Well, there would have to be something to CAUSE that. And i'm not worried about the sun exploding, eventhough i have a bad day once in a while and actually WISH that it WOULD explode, i just dont see that happening anytime soon, or ever for that matter..
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Our sun, in comparison to other old stars, is in my opinion very young and very stable. I wouldnt worry my fuzzy little head over it too much. Id worry more about NASA being so stupid as to bomb the moon (which will have disastrous consiquenses) and then making up a crap story that theyre doing it to find water.
Bombing the moon = deadly weather on Earth. The Moon is resposible for the push and pull of the tides, due to the Moon's
magnetic feilds (Or something like that, my memory is terrible) so maybe THAT would also explain the weird bird behavior (sinc they rely of the
Earth's Magnetic-poles for direction and the Moon's megnetism effecting the tides etc... its all connected in one way or other.) But to Bomb the
moon and say it for the searc for water? They dont deserve to call themselve's scientists. Who knows, maybe they found oil on the moon and their
bombing it like Bush did to other countries OR, maybe they know something else, like Moon men declaring war against us? To me it makes more sense, because if you want to search for water, you dont BOMB for it, you dig for it. And about the sun EXPLODING. Well, there would have to be something to CAUSE that. And i'm not worried about the sun exploding, eventhough i have a bad day once in a while and actually WISH that it WOULD explode, i just dont see that happening anytime soon, or ever for that matter..
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reply posted on 23-11-2009 @ 02:12 PM by VonDoomen
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how do they know that, that certain star wasn't at that stage of its life-cycle?
how do they know that, that certain star wasn't at that stage of its life-cycle?
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