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Star Cooler Than Venus Found
crossconnects writes to mention that Discovery is reporting that astronomers have found a nearby star with a mild surface temperature of 660 degrees fahrenheit. "The spectacularly unspectacular object is of special interest because it falls right smack in the middle of the final frontier that divides mega-planets from the puniest stars. Stars in that realm theoretically qualify as an entirely new stellar type -- what's called a Y class dwarf."
Venus never was that hip.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
... and I have a hard time believing there are many stars out there that are even "as cool" as Venus. Venus is so fucking awesome that it's just absurd for anybody to claim they've found a star cooler than her.
What, they should have used Rankine?
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
TFA doesn't mention it, but I'm amazed that this object can be this cool, yet still have a nuclear furnace at its heart.
Perhaps it's using cold fusion? (ba dump dum)
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
Then we should use Degrees Delisle, which has the added bonus of going backwards. Body temperature is at 95 Delisle. The sun (ours, that is) is at negative several thousand degrees Delisle.
Or physicists can do what they usually do and discover "dark" fission.
lol: You see no door there!
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Urrectum.
My karma is in a nose dive