"Final kiss of two stars heading for catastrophe!" Posted on October 2015 by Astronomy Now. "The double star system VFTS 352 is located about 160,000 light-years away in the Tarantula Nebula. This remarkable region is the most active nursery of new stars in the nearby universe and new observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed that this pair of young stars is among the most extreme and strangest yet found. VFTS 352 is composed of two very hot, bright and massive stars that orbit each other in little more than a day. The centers of the stars are separated by just 12 million kilometers (7.5 million miles). In fact, the stars are so close that their surfaces overlap and a bridge has formed between them. VFTS 352 is not only the most massive known in this tiny class of “over-contact binaries” — it has a combined mass of about 57 times that of the Sun — but it also contains the hottest components — with surface temperatures above 40,000 degrees Celsius."
Of course the picture above is only an Artist's rendition of what these stars could look like,
but I imagine it is close to the real thing.
It seems the more we explore
and discover about our Galaxy,
the more bizarre the reality of how the Universe works is revealed.
(Here is my plug.)
I once wrote a Short Story for
"Writers of the Future"
contest,
called
(It's on this Blog under - Poetry, Short Stories, Flash Fiction, & A Novelette.)
thinking I had a new concept about our Universe where I described a Galaxy having two Black Holes at its center.
Right after I sent the story in,
the Headlines came out on every Astronomy Magazine
and Website the discover,
at the center of a Galaxy,
that's right,
Two Black Holes!
One of the requirements of the Contest is to do the research
and have your facts straight.
Maybe that's why all the Winners of the Contest are so conservative in creating an imaginative,
believable future Earth.
Wait,
could it just be me being jealous of their success?
Nah,
I'm too magnanimous for such petty emotions!
This is,
Looking Down Onto The Rest Of The World,
Jim Hauenstein,
And,
"God is out there. Using the Earth as an experiment. Bringing these creatures to life, then extinction. Another set of creatures to life, then extinction. Let's hope he isn't bored of us yet!"
- Two Buck Howie -
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
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