Coooooool.

[theweaselking]

"Such a system must have had a very troubled history", said Pierre Maxted, lead author of the paper that reports the study in this week's issue of Nature. "Its existence proves that the brown dwarf came out almost unaltered from an episode in which it was swallowed by a red giant."

Comments

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I couldn't explain to my labmate why this was so inherently amazingly neat. "So what does it explain?" he said.

Philistine.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

That star is made of some pretty stern stuff.

I mean, to be swallowed whole by a giant, and not come out paranoid, or scared, or anything. It had a very traumatic episode--even the scientist says it--and it had a troubled history to begin with, and yet it emerges unscathed from such personal horror...wow.

[scixual.livejournal.com]

Poo jokes abound.