Not to freak you out, but there's a gamma ray-blasting stellar mass pointed in your direction
By Matt Ransford
Posted 03.07.2008 at 4:36 pm
Friends of the Dark Side, your time may soon be at hand. It seems we have a literal death star aiming in our general direction. The culprit is part of a binary star system—two stars which orbit each other—by the name of WR 104. Both are massive and very, very hot. One will eventually explode into a harmless supernova, providing us with a lovely astronomical light show. The other, however, might be deadly.
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