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Star Swallows Companion, Burps Out Planet-Forming Cloud
New Scientist is reporting that BP Piscium, an unusual star recently under scrutiny from astronomers, may have swallowed a nearby companion and spewed out a planet-forming dust cloud as a result. The team has also identified a similar scenario with another star which they hope will offer more answers.
planet-forming-cloud belching overlords!
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It should probably down a couple of gas giants, or maybe a cool nebula.
it's a star-eat-star universe after all, eh
It's like trying to understand human psychology via unrelated still photographs of humans from orbit.
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as they are being killed off.
I thought this was another random Hollywood story, think about it, it makes just about as much sense.
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What puzzling questions? I guess that's why I should read the article? O_o
;-)
Here's one, how did British Petroleum manage to buy a star and name it BP Piscium? Are oil profits really that good?
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I'd be willing to bet their answers only lead to more puzzling questions.
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well Exxon mobile cleared enough profit last year alone to buy yahoo in cash, where as MSFT will have to resort to 50% cash and 50% stock.
you do the math.
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Well, its an unusual star. The article says its low on Lithium, so its probably just been skipping its schizophrenia medication.
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Are you sure the name of that star isn't B.J. Piscium?
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Photos of this amazing interstellar phenomenon here.
Rainbows?
Doomsday Machine, stellar edition!
Refer to it as the "The Time of the Great Kegger".
it's a star-eat-star universe after all, eh
I couldn't possibly have another bite of star. My doctor says I have to cut down on hydrogen.
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Whatever the questions are, we will have them answered in about a couple billion years, as soon as the planets are fully formed.
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was Paris Hilton.
I watch way too much porn.
It costs around $20 to name a star btw.
Given that it was hungry enough to eat a whole other star I'd say it was not only low on Lithium, it was high on weed and seriously munching.
Naming a star and owning a star are 2 different things, especially if you don't care if your star has hundreds of other names by other people. This is because star registries are not offical astronomical registries and each registry is independently owned and operated. Basically the registries are a gimmick and that's why it's so cheap. Owning a star...well, as far as I know I don't believe that is possible given the International Space Treaty.
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I had this image of Kevin James eating Ray Romano when I read the title. Sigh. I guess I need more help than I thought.
I know the poster wanted to make the title catchy, but come on now. Humor with celebrity references is not quite one of the stregths of the slashdot demographic. Look at the replies! they are just horrible :(
Jusst curious.
Ed
My laptop has plenty of lithium. Does that mean it is ready to belch out some firey dust cloud?
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
The treaty prevents governments from claiming ownership, not people or corporations.
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
though they also payed as much taxes as half of america.
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Given that it was hungry enough to eat a whole other star
I hope my _sun_ does not do that!~
My companion girl is not a star, that's probably why I can't make her swallow...
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And that still makes this old news...
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No comments about the big cloud coming from Uranus????
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Sorry, sir, but lithium is probably better at treating bipolar affective disorder than schizophrenia.
Which is the line that guy selling land on the moon peddles. It won't stick either. It's stretching plausibility to claim, and sell, land you have never even visited and in fact are not capable of visiting. Traditionally you have to at least plant a flag - and normally, you have to live on the land a while and prove you can sustain your colony before anyone will recognise your claim. That, and have enough guns to argue your case the hard way if necessary.
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Read that headline with the reality show "Dancing with the stars"; Star swallows companion...
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That was a really...
Seven Days with Ubuntu Unity
now imagine a beowulf cluster of companion-swallowing cloud-burping stars!
Looks like someone just used MD. Device(aka. Molecular Disruption Device) and and turned many Buggers into dust.
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I miss Carnak.
Solar systems are nothing more than star farts.
Have gnu, will travel.
The word prodigious always reminds me of Dr. Strangelove
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it appears to be sucking up new material at a prodigious rate.
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Ace
well Exxon mobile cleared enough profit last year alone to buy yahoo in cash, where as MSFT will have to resort to 50% cash and 50% stock.
Like stars, Yahoo is way overpriced. Buying with stock makes sense, if you are a company like Microsoft and able to turn Yahoo into something. If Exxon bought Yahoo with cash, it would take quite some time to realize a return on investment, about as much time as it takes to generate ROI on money paid for a star, from the star itself. BTW, if anyone wants to pay someone for a star, I'll take the deposit.
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A planet-forming cloud ... to a star, that kind of weather is hail.
Know your pads. One time pad: good for cryptography. Two timing pad: where to take your mistress.
actually MSFT will never achieve a ROI on yahoo. MSFT is a directionless company with a handful of good products looking for anything to help them compete. yahoo is a directionless company with a handful of good products trying to figure out how to compete.
The two merged would be worse than AOL time warner. It just won't work. the neither side has anything of major value that the other side can't have now.
Sure you can name a few yahoo offerings but in the end there is really nothing new for either side.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.