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Tatooine's twin suns - coming to a planet near you
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Author:  Bluebonnet [ Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:45 am ]
Post subject:  Tatooine's twin suns - coming to a planet near you

IT'S the ultimate experience for Star Wars fans - staring forlornly off into the distance as twin suns sink into the horizon.

Yet it's not just a figment of George Lucas's imagination - twin suns are real. And here's the big news - they could be coming to Earth.

Yes, any day now we see a second sun light up the sky, if only for a matter of weeks.

The infamous red super-giant star in Orion’s nebula - Betelgeuse - is predicted to go gangbusters and the impending super-nova may reach Earth before 2012, and when it does, all of our wildest Star Wars dreams will come true.

The second biggest star in the universe is losing mass, a typical indication that a gravitation collapse is occurring.

When that happens, we'll get our second sun, according to Dr Brad Carter, Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland. :yamon

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/tatooines-twin-suns-coming-to-a-planet-near-you-just-as-soon-as-betelgeuse-explodes/story-fn5fsgyc-1225991009247#ixzz1BgIBYbrz

Author:  L2L [ Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tatooine's twin suns - coming to a planet near you

Oh boy PXers are gonna love this, Blue I am gonna post this to the GT..

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