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Planet-Gobbling Star

Posted by timothy on from the this-is-my-theory dept.

crymeph0 writes "BBC is carrying a story about a star that mysteriously brightened three times last year. Scientists now know why. It's been eating gas-giant planets that orbit it! I'm just glad Earth isn't a tasty gas planet, or else we'd have to start making sacrifices to Sol to play it safe." It's hard to prove things from 20,000 light years away, but this explanation is interesting.

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  1. Re:Urk? by hondo77 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is times like this that the need for a "Duh!" -1 moderation is screamingly obvious.

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  2. Re:Planet-Gobbling Star by SablKnight · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe it's because your link goes to doubleclick, purveyor of annoying ads, instead of to IMDB directly?