Sandstorms In Spaaaaace
Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 03:00
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers believe they have found the answer to the mystery of a powerful ‘superwind’ which causes the death of stars.Stars like our own Sun end their lives with a ‘superwind’ 100 million times stronger than the solar wind, which occurs over a period of 10,000 years, and removes as much as half the mass of the star. At the end, only a dying and fading remnant of the star remain. Not to worry. The Sun won't begin to throw out those gases for around five billion years. read more
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