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Cosmic CPR...How do you jumpstart a dead star? Its a staple of science fiction, restarting our dying star with some kind of atomic superbomb. Why is our sun running out of fuel, and what can we actually do to get it restarted? Stars die. Occasionally threatening the Earth and its civilization in a variety plot devices in science fiction. Fortunately theres often a Bruce Willis coming in to save the day, delivering a contraption, possibly riding a giant bomb shaped like a spaceship, to the outer proximity of our dying Sun that magically fixes the broken star and all humanity is saved. Is there any truth in this idea? If our sun dies, can we just crack out a giant solar defibrillator and shock it back into life? Not exactly...Read more at the link below: phys.org/news/2014-03-jumpstart-dead-star.html
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:00:57 +0000

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