Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:14:11 -0500 Message-ID: <55763DFF.2178@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 18:14:39 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,rec.arts.sf.written,alt.astronomy Subject: Re: Stars References: <5571FB38.7032@ix.netcom.com> <5572949E.4109@ix.netcom.com> <55734AE0.158F@ix.netcom.com> <5573EEEC.6122@ix.netcom.com> <9rCdnULNYdus1OnInZ2dnUU7-KUAAAAA@giganews.com> <55749E2A.4BC1@ix.netcom.com> <17udnSNIFoRubenInZ2dnUU7-UudnZ2d@giganews.com> <5574F340.323E@ix.netcom.com> <3b7e2667-2709-414f-ab18-e6268470ab37@googlegroups.com> <55760132.503D@ix.netcom.com> <1df3326b-8aeb-4ff6-b26a-7ee71ba3e71e@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 62 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 23.241.144.149 X-Trace: sv3-1RSMmqKuPbWGXpCXRyRbDWlkBTOsUA44RYbjKuomHCXg9kx4iBhQnnOSf1v6ZsCo7MWF1PVimaetNEP!/5XnjM/sJ15zTvIHv0B94J7VLUspitIBtsZTRCOhcPh9ogfJaXqDsqjLOpE2emYAEDXpB8FkrkTG!VVi8JAunJcE= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 4140 X-Received-Bytes: 4252 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2139497854 Xref: aioe.org sci.physics:498813 sci.physics.relativity:352363 rec.arts.sf.written:413211 alt.astronomy:269728 pnalsing@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 1:55:14 PM UTC-7, The Starmaker wrote: > > pnal@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 6:42:18 PM UTC-7, The Starmaker wrote: > > > > Sam Wormley wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 6/7/15 2:40 PM, The Starmaker wrote: > > > > > > The stars, our sun...is 'aware' of the earth. In other words, the sun has ...consciousness. > > > > > > > > > > You don't say -- hopefully our sun wound puff up and vaporize > > > > > the earth someday. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > but you wrote: "That leaves our sun with no possibility of exploding." > > > > > > > > > > > > ain't you contradicting yourself??... > > > > > > > > > > > > without links, you're lost...ain't you? > > > > > > A star the size of the Sun will indeed "puff up" near the end of its life, and become a planetary nebula... but this is not at all the same thing as exploding. You want a link, no problem... > > > > > > http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/balick/WFPC2/ > > > > > > "95% of all stars that we see in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, will ultimately become "planetary nebulae". This includes the Sun. > > > > > > Much as a butterfly emerges when its chrysalis is ejected, planetary nebulae are formed when a red giant star ejects its outer layers as clouds of luminescent gas, revealing the dense, hot, and tiny white dwarf star at its core. > > > > > > The other 5% of stars -- that is, those born with masses more than eight times larger than our Sun -- end their lives as supernovae." > > > > > > So, only 5% of all stars, the largest and heaviest, explode in a supernova. > > > > > > You need more links? No problem... > > > > > > http://www.cosmotography.com/images/planetary_nebula_formation.html > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_nebula > > > > > > http://www.space.com/17715-planetary-nebula.html > > > > > > https://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2010/stars2010/Presentations/4March/Zijlstra_ESO2010.pdf > > > > > > Happy reading, I hope you learn something new today. This is fascinating stuff! > > > > > > \Paul A > > > > > > the craziest topics you guys have is this...'fate of the universe' > > thing....why would anybody want to know what will happen a trillion > > years from now? > > > > Shouldn't yous be more concern with...today, instead of escaping to a > > trillion years from now? Good pot can do the same thing.. > > I don't recall 'fate of the universe' being mentioned or discussed in this thread... well, if the sun puffs up and vaporize the earth...does the universe exist then?