Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Suck

"This unfortunate star got tossed toward the central black hole. Now it's on the ride of its life," so said Dr Murray-Clay with respect to a very young, albeit doomed, star in our galaxy. The star and its planet-forming cloud are being sucked at an out-of-this-world pace towards the Milky Way's one way sewer, Sagitarius A (who, incidentally, cannot be found on Facebook or Twitter).


Earlier this year, a cloud of ionized gas and dust was observed falling towards the hole. This cloud of gassy dust (i.e., dusty gas) was a fine recipe for the potential birth of a solar system, thus, it is regarded by some researchers as "proto-planetary." Young stars generate this confluence of gas and dust over many millions of years, but it will take the hungry Sag A just a few years to consume the majority of the star's disc cloud (yet, the star itself may survive).

In spite of a one-way, fast-track elliptical orbit to never-to-be-heard-from-again "land," research indicates that the amazing lesson du jour is that of the possibility that planets can still yet be formed in a galactical war zone.

Life sometimes can suck.
  Suck: --verb 
to draw or be drawn by or as if by suction

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