[WhatRobEats]

Nature's firework show. Incredible.

[Naked Snake]

An expected increase in activity as the sun ages means that Earth will become uninhabitable long before then, though.

Wait what, first time I hear this.... So how long have we got? I want numbers!

[verbum]

Once this star finally collapses after expending all its potential energy, I believe it becomes a giant diamond.

The newly discovered cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. (A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, or about 6 trillion miles.) It is 2,500 miles across and weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds, which translates to approximately 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a one followed by 34 zeros. The huge cosmic gem (technically known as BPM 37093) is actually a crystallized white dwarf. A white dwarf is the hot core of a star, left over after the star uses up its nuclear fuel and dies. It is made mostly of carbon and is coated by a thin layer of hydrogen and helium gases.

http://www.universetoday.com/9295/as...mond-in-space/

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Wait what, first time I hear this.... So how long have we got? I want numbers!

Lol, I was always scared about those topics when I read them in my beloved book about space.
Dont worry, we will be already dead and in other planets before it happens.

[Akira]

The star is located 1,500 light years away in the constellation of Camelopardalis (the giraffe). [...] This carbon star is now in the red giant phase of its evolution and could have only centuries of life left - a mere blink of an eye in stellar time-scales.

yourealreadydead.jpg

[Marvie_3]

Wait what, first time I hear this.... So how long have we got? I want numbers!

6 weeks. Maybe 7.

[-COOLIO-]

neat

[verbum]

6 weeks. Maybe 7.

Was not that estimate made 2 weeks ago?

[Raist]

Amazingly, the star itself actually fits into one tiny pixel at the centre of the image.

wut.

Wait what, first time I hear this.... So how long have we got? I want numbers!

5 months + 10 days.

[InaudibleWhispa]

[The Technomancer]

Slowclap

[makingmusic476]

I didn't expect this thread to make me laugh. xD

[DoctorWho]

lol

[FACE]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/uF6b5.jpg[IMG] Soon... (assuming the idiots in the house don't fuck it). Looks badass too - [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/kQuGj.jpg[IMG]

I can't wait.

[SpacePirate Ridley]

YES!

[Insane Metal]

Soon... (assuming the idiots in the house don't fuck it). Looks badass too -

I really can't wait for JWST. Most expected scientific event in my lifetime.