A baby star stabs through the heart of Orion
You might think of stars as pretty points of light in the night sky. You might even think of the Sun as a star, its presence stable and easy to take for granted.
But a star is a mighty beast; octillions of tons of seething gas, energy, magnetic fields, all powered by a nuclear furnace at its heart.
And when one is born it is not a calm and staid process. It is prone to vast outbursts, powerful enough to dwarf any concept we have of the scale, some blasting out without focus, and some laser-col...
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Hugo
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Jan 08, 2021 10:55AM
We humans cannot conceive of the scale of the Universe. We invent words like million or billion to describe the mathematical functions of distance or time, but have no real concept of them in terms of their magnitude. Can you describe these units in terms we could understand Phil? For example, the mass of a star in relation to the mass of minerals excavated from the Earth since the industrial revolution?
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