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Star Smaller Than Some Planets Found
Abhishek writes "Astronomers have found the tiniest full-fledged star known, an object just 16 percent bigger than Jupiter. It is smaller than some known planets that orbit other stars.
The star is a companion to a Sun-like star toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. It was found and measured by observing changes in the light output of the system when the smaller star passes in front of the larger star from our vantagepoint. This would give a better idea of brown dwarfs or failed stars. The star has been named OGLE-TR-122b. This discovery also marks the possibility of stars that look strikingly like planets."
ps. she's a really cute mare :)
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Idiot mods who can't spot Trek quality technobabble when they see it - haha.
Wha? Sound like something LaForge would come up with to detect a cloaked romulan warbird.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
I herd - that if the sun instantly became a blackhole (even thought it doesn't have enough mass), then the earth would continute to orbit it normaly, since the gavity wouldn't be any stronger than the suns.
Sure all life would die off and everything would freeze.
Also - it is said that a nothing (not even light) can excape a blackhole's gavity. Could particles like nuetrinos since they don't interact with anything?
I think that was the intention.
There are no tiger attacks in my area and it's all because this rock I'm holding keeps the tigers away.
well, now we know where these tiny grey alians come from - a tiny star with tiny planets...
Oh well, what the hell...
Idiot mods who can't spot Trek quality technobabble when they see it - haha.
Which begs a question: why can't the producers of Star Trek hire a real physicist to fix their lines.