A STAR primed to explode in a blast that could wipe out the Earth was revealed by astronomers yesterday.
It will self-destruct in an explosion called a supernova with the force of 20 billion billion billion megatons of TNT.
Uhoh!! 20 Billion billion billion!! (I think there's an actual mathematical number for that amount, but I don't remember what it is - doesn't the Sun have any mathematics professors on staff?)
So the blast from the thermonuclear explosion could strip away our ozone layer that keeps out deadly space radiation. Life on Earth would then be frazzled.
Move over AGW! We've got Universal Global Warming to worry about now.. someone get a hold of AlGore!
These explosions came regularly about every 20 years from 1890 - but stopped after 1967.
So the next blast is nearly 20 years overdue, said scientists Edward M Sion, Patrick Godon and Timothy McClain at the American Astronomical Society in Washington. Robin Scagell, vice-president of the UK's Society for Popular Astronomy, said last night: "The star may certainly became a supernova soon - but soon could still be a long way off so don't have nightmares."
Ooh.. so it's cyclical? Better get Al Gore working on the documentary for this soon!
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