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Eureka: The Death of Stars

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Screen capture from Euraka Season Three, Episode SevenOn Tuesday’s nights Eureka, a miniature sun was accidently born in the skies above the town, wreaking destruction. The solution? To shoot iron into the sunlet’s core.

This is in fact not far off how some real stars die: iron poisoning. (more…)

September 18th, 2008 Tags: ,
by Stephen Cass in Astronomy, Physics, Space, TV | No Comments » | RSS feed | Trackback >