Doomed twin stars found at nebula's heart

Skürt Avil · Feb 9, 2015

A pair of white dwarfs will merge, not sure if it will make it into 1.1
On a more childish note, got to say I lol'd at the scientist's surname.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31310355

EAGLE 5 · Feb 9, 2015

Whatever the outcome, it's going to be noisy.

CarlosMaximus · Feb 9, 2015

Quality read, here, have some rep. (And yes, the surname did elicit a nose-snort.)

WO-One · Feb 9, 2015

What was that Chinese curse,

'May you be born in interesting times!'

Perseus · Feb 9, 2015

EAGLE 5 said:
Whatever the outcome, it's going to be noisy.

Only if it happens in the ED universe.

ollobrains · Feb 9, 2015

this sounds like a post micheal brookes would respond to, apart from new colonies and new terraforming colonies, would it be possible to get this type of star setup in some of the procedural systems

Skürt Avil · Feb 9, 2015

It'll pop in 700M years and is 4000ly away. I think I'll head on over there. Plenty of time.

The system is Henize 2-428, someone has probably been there.

EAGLE 5 · Feb 9, 2015

Perseus said:
Only if it happens in the ED universe.

That's because if a tree falls in space it doesn't make sound regardless of whether or not anyone is around to hear it.

777Driver · Feb 9, 2015

Can't understand how people can hate on this game. Read about the cat's Eye Nebula in that article, straight to the gal map and it's there in all it's glory.

thanks for the link to the article.

Maxulic · Feb 10, 2015

dysonl said:
A pair of white dwarfs will merge, not sure if it will make it into 1.1
On a more childish note, got to say I lol'd at the scientist's surname.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31310355

Will check back in 700 million years. They said we could see it from Earth in daylight so I'm eager to it though we will probably have left Earth by then.

SirFreddie · Feb 10, 2015

Imagine in the year 700,002,015 looking up to the sky and seeing this bright light and you turn to your friend and say "That's amazing" and your friend turns back and says " Mmm yeah... But it was predicted by Dr. Boffin 700 million years ago!"

ThirdNostril · Feb 10, 2015

Sucks that you can't get to the cat's eye nebula

Phier · Feb 10, 2015

777Driver said:
Can't understand how people can hate on this game. Read about the cat's Eye Nebula in that article, straight to the gal map and it's there in all it's glory.

thanks for the link to the article.

That part is why we are frustrated by the lack of things to do in this fantastic galaxy they created. It's a sports car and no where to buy gas.

Krepose Gavayne · Feb 10, 2015

I just saw the article and wondered whether anyone had referenced it on these forums.

blacky75 · Feb 10, 2015

what I'm a bit missing here in ED is some interactivity on such events... I mean if they are implemented into our MW-ED.... they'll just appear as 2 white dwarfs.... nothing else between or any exploding things around going on...It's like a 'static' or always-same-loop picture of our MW ^^

Not a rant, just a fact