What stars within our galaxy that we are currently observing are speculated to go supernova, particularly those in binary or trinary systems, within the next 150-500 years?
Basically, I was reading the Orion's Arm entry on the Laughter Hegemony, and I was thinking...what if the TITANs (among an infinity of other goals) used the Gates to try and get to stars before they went nova to experiment with starlifting techniques? Given that they'd have our own pre-Fall predictions, and would be able to refine them immeasurably, this seems like one of many projects they could be engaging in, and one of the reasons for an abrupt exodus upon discovering the Gates. Of course, every GM's mileage may vary. Maybe it's ETI-centric reasons, although even then why not use pawns like the TITANs for some menial resource extraction/why not try and capitalize on resources not targeted by the ETI for an eventual war with the ETI (depending on what kind of ETI-centric reason your game uses).
So does anyone livin' in the now of the pre-Fall know any predictions of supernova that fit these timeline parameters?
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Any astronomers know this?
Sat, 2014-02-22 18:51
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consumerdestroyer
Any astronomers know this?
Sat, 2014-02-22 19:22
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Undocking
150-500 years is too small on
150-500 years is too small on a stellar scale to matter. Betelgeuse (triple star system), Eta Carinae (at least 1 other star) and IK Pegasus (binary system) are the most likely candidates for going off in the next millenia, but could go off between now and a million years. The effects of any supernova would still take hundreds of years to get to Sol.
Sun, 2014-02-23 20:49
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consumerdestroyer
Sweet, that helps! Thanks!
Sweet, that helps! Thanks!
Fri, 2014-03-14 20:09
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Kassil
Eta Carinae may well already
Eta Carinae may well already have gone up in a flash, given how unstable it looks: http://www.grantchronicles.com/etacarinaebig.jpg
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Sat, 2014-03-15 00:40
#5
consumerdestroyer
That is amazing.
That is [b]amazing[/b].
Sat, 2014-03-15 03:20
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Kassil
One of the current theories
One of the current theories is that it (will/has) detonate in a hypernova and fire off a matched pair of gamma ray bursts. Thankfully, we don't seem to be looking down the barrel of it, since those lobes almost certainly blew off the rotational poles, which is also the direction the GRB will fire.
As close as it is, a GRB from that would pretty much cook us, and possibly cook the entire solar system. Best argument I have for getting the hell out into interstellar space and beyond, no matter how hostile the interstellar void is. >.>
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Mon, 2014-03-24 18:20
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Arenamontanus
Then there is WR104, which
Then there is WR104, which fortunately now looks off-axis:
http://www.universetoday.com/23342/wr-104-wont-kill-us-after-all/
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Fri, 2014-04-11 22:50
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Chernoborg
On a related note, can
On a related note, can anybody recommend a good site for finding out the distances of the various L1 and L2 Lagrange points for planets and moons throughout the system?
I'm curious as to where some of the stations like Liberty Station and Commonwealth Hub are relative to their parent bodies. If I recall, they're both described as being in synchronous orbit but since those moons are tidally locked that only makes sense at the Lagrange points. As Galileo Regio is on the anti-Jupiter side of Ganymede and Phoebe is occupying Titans L1 , that means both must be at L2. Where Phoebe is would be nice to know too - just in case it winds up sharing an orbit with Rhea !
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