"Death Dance" Stars Found—May Help Prove Einstein Right

[yhokz101]

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A pair of aging stars discovered 3,000 light-years away is locked in a "dance" of death—a union that will end in their collision and a possible supernova, astronomers say.

The binary star system consists of two white dwarfs—the burnt-out cores of sunlike stars. The white dwarfs are gradually spiraling toward each other at breakneck speeds of 370 miles (595 kilometers) a second, and they're destined to merge in 900,000 years.
But astronomers hope that, before the collision, the spinning stars will help scientists test Einstein's general theory of relativity and even reveal the origins of an entire class of supernovae. (Related: "Einstein's Gravity Confirmed on a Cosmic Scale.")
"What is so incredible is that this exotic pair of Earth- and Neptune-sized stars are orbiting each other at only a third of our Earth-moon distance, circling each other every 12 minutes," said study leader Warren Brown, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


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[warsucks]

good infos..

[orangegarnet]

nice one.. =)

[yhokz101]

this is quite an interesting find indeed..

[arkdave1984]

fighter sa picture.

[rodsky]

fighter sa picture.

Just reminding folks that this is just an artist's impression, and not a real photograph of the event.

-RODION

[moy1moy1]

Just reminding folks that this is just an artist's impression, and not a real photograph of the event.

-RODION

.. yet somehow it gave us an idea, correct?

[rodsky]

.. yet somehow it gave us an idea, correct?

That's the point of having an artist's impression, yes, to give us an idea of how it looks like. But we don't really know how it looks like.

-RODION

[yhokz101]

just a quick question though.. as they have discovered this event, does this also mean that what they are seeing is actually happening or happening previously? As what I have read that we are seeing things in its previous state when it is lightyears away?

[tsunade]

just a quick question though.. as they have discovered this event, does this also mean that what they are seeing is actually happening or happening previously? As what I have read that we are seeing things in its previous state when it is lightyears away?

mao sab ni akong question.