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Giant star caught swallowing three planets

A giant star has been caught in the act of swallowing three planets, one after the other, with each "meal" accompanied by a massive eruption.

The star, known as V838 Monocerotis, is about 20,000 light years from Earth. In January 2002, it temporarily became the brightest star in the Milky Way, 600,000 times more luminous than the Sun. At the time, astronomers struggled to explain the spectacular explosion.


I wonder how many folks today, watching Patton think "That music's the theme to the police academy movies" ?

Ocean Spray's Cranberry light is pretty good. Newt's been sniffing at mine since I poured it.

Levi Strauss has officially left the US. - Will close its two remaining U.S. plants in San Antonio as well as three plants in Canada. Future work will be outsourced to cheaper contract factories in Asia and Latin America.

I'm not disgruntled. Actually, I'm fairly gruntled.

Super piles of rain coming from the sky! It was clear only an hour ago. Major bolt from the blue just set off a bunch of car alarms.

A 23-year-old Saudi man has married four women at the same time to spite his first bride who divorced in acrimony. ( Read more... )

I guess he showed her! Eesh!


Not far from my goal!! You are sire to 98 other vampires, including: LdySaphyre (7337 pints), MissV (2909 pints), Liliana (2678 pints), gilbella (1357 pints), mixedresults (1246 pints), Morgoth (886 pints), Nathanael (690 pints), night_flyer (605 pints), wchmum (486 pints), Morgane La Fey (362 pints) Anyone else want to join the gang?

Franz Kafka's THE METAMORPHOSIS adapted by Peter Kuper.

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