Posted on 07/21/2006 6:28:00 PM PDT by KevinDavis
(SPACE.com) -- In February, a faint star a few thousand light-years away flared suddenly, beaming so brightly that for a few days it was visible to the naked eye.
The star is a stellar corpse the size of Earth, known as a white dwarf, and it is paired in a binary system with a red giant, a dying, bloated star that once resembled our sun. The red giant has been dumping gas onto the surface of the white dwarf, and every few years, enough matter accumulates to set off a giant thermonuclear explosion.
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Here is a really good description of the processes, fuel, and resultant sizes during the life of our sun. :-)
http://astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses//astro201/evol_sun.htm
Here ya go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dwarf
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1995/03/text/
some think our star may be part of a binary system...
http://www.physorg.com/news6428.html
That's what happens when you throw a Gate into it.
I don't agree.
I don't know enough about the issue to agree or not!!
I haven't looked into it deeply either. Just parts of that article struck me wrong. I will do a bit of research and get back to you.
My very best regards,
RA
That's right, and Mars as well. The planets within the sun's atmosphere would evaporate. This will be in five billion years or so, but it might be well to consider that it will be getting warm on earth well before then and the oceans will have boiled off four billion years earlier.
LOL! I can imagine Reverend Lovejoy on The Simpsons saying all that!
my thanks to you both
Thanks!
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