Starship Asterisk*

While none have been observed, where would one find out what they expect to see when they do observe one? And I grant that just because I would expect to see something like Eta Carina doesn't mean that others would, but what is it that they expect to see? I expect it just because of how I understand...

Well, you bring up a good point about stars merging rather than colliding, and I'm sure that happens as well. In regards to how often stars collide, which might mean combine, there is the following from the New York Times: http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/science/061300sci-stars-collisio...

I fear you're straying into crackpot country. Said the Abominable Snowman, Chris Peterson. I quite likely am, apparently. But really, what would a collision between two stars look like? Do astronomers have a particular set of features to look for when searching through the images that would indicat...

I suspect that this will turn out to be nothing but two stars that have collided. While there's no particular reason to make that assumption, the reality is that stars colliding is a vanishingly rare event, so an observation would be scientifically valuable. It is my opinion, arrived at after consi...

I suspect that this will turn out to be nothing but two stars that have collided.

I have no idea if drbuck917 is still interested in star formation 3 months later but in case that person is, I thought I'd post. I too found myself wondering about how a star forms, and where its planets and the rest of the family all come from. Chris Peterson is right about theories. All sorts of p...

This simulation is very good. I am curious just how it was done. When watching it, one has to keep in mind that the time factor is greatly distorted, and 'rapidly spinning' is really just an artifact of the simulation. That the way we currently believe a galaxy spins may be a posit made from insuffi...