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  • What we were most pleased to find an answer to… was that the results strongly tip towards a 2 solar-mass dying star.

    Epsilon Aurigae Eclipse Mystery Solved with Your Help | Universe Today 2010

  • I am told it was an extremely large solar-mass ejection, First Myrmidon.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • This means that instead of being a 20 solar-mass F-star supergiant, Epsilon Aurigae is in fact a 2 solar-mass F-star which is in the last stages of its life, and thus giant in size – about 300 Suns across.

    Epsilon Aurigae Eclipse Mystery Solved with Your Help | Universe Today 2010

  • I am told it was an extremely large solar-mass ejection, First Myrmidon.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • I am told it was an extremely large solar-mass ejection, First Myrmidon.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • Quote: This means that instead of being a 20 solar-mass F-star supergiant, Epsilon Aurigae is in fact a 2 solar-mass F-star which is in the last stages of its life.

    Epsilon Aurigae Eclipse Mystery Solved with Your Help | Universe Today 2010

  • While the material itself cannot be seen directly, the X rays flicker on a millisecond time scale, as expected for hot clumpy material orbiting a ~10 solar-mass black hole just prior to accretion.

    the atomic uni-verse 2008

  • 'Near a solar-mass black hole the effects would be so strong they'd spaghettify an astronaut in pretty short order' Paul Davies How To Build A Time Machine 2001: 60-1

    Archive 2006-01-01 Kirsty 2006

  • 'Near a solar-mass black hole the effects would be so strong they'd spaghettify an astronaut in pretty short order' Paul Davies How To Build A Time Machine 2001: 60-1

    Sna-a-a-a-rl Kirsty 2006

  • "While solar-mass loss alone would allow the orbital radius of planet Earth to grow sufficiently to avoid this 'doomsday' scenario," the authors of the study conclude, the tidal interaction of the Sun and the closely orbiting planet "will lead to a fatal decrease" in the size of Earth's orbit.

    NYT > Home Page By C. CLAIBORNE RAY 2012

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