It's a death star, but that's life How's this for a science (non)fiction movie synopsis; two stars, closely orbiting each other, 8000 light years from Earth, pose a direct threat to life on this planet should one of them explode. Eight years ago Dr Tuthill's team, using Hawaii's huge Keck telescope, discovered that one of the objects is a highly unstable beast called a Wolf-Rayet star. They inevitably die in huge ... Read full entry
It’s a death star, but that’s life
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 5 March, 2008 to the comment subset
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