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When stars collide...

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:59 pm
by Nightshade
This will be amazing to watch...and learn more about as it happens!

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017 ... -sky-2022/

Two smaller stars are about to collide (or rather, already did about 1800 years ago) and the light of their merger will light up the sky.

Re: When stars collide...

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 2:51 pm
by woodchip
Read about this and looking forward to the occurance

Re: When stars collide...

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 4:47 am
by sigma
NS, I think we need to enjoy the stars, which saw the dinosaurs and when people lived in a cave in the best case. Sometimes I do not understand how people do survive in those conditions.

Re: When stars collide...

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 12:47 pm
by Tunnelcat
It's weird to think that we are still seeing the light from stars that died millennia ago and currently no longer exist.

Re: When stars collide...

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 2:34 pm
by Nightshade