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  • Star Goes Rogue in Untimely Collision

    11/18/2009 2:09:06 PM PST · by LibWhacker · 44 replies · 1,245+ views
    Discovery ^ | 11/18/09 | Ray Villard
    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...