The distance between two stars is generally so vast that it’s incredibly rare for them to collide. When they do, it’s because they share a mysterious gravitational bond that draws them toward one another, across millions of miles, in the most unlikely of ways. The two stars orbit around one another until they eventually merge to form a supernova, luminous in its grandeur, each star forever changed in composition by the other, so powerful that the supernova can be detected as far as 130 million light-years away, shuddering through space-time. It was a bit like that.
