Any examples of Collided Stars visible to the Amature?

The following link:

Relative size of our world:
http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

Got me to thinking of big burning balls of gas in the sky.


Over the ages one must have been drawn into collision with another.

Are any available to the kind of telescopes we might have at home?


TBerk

Well, excuse my spelling.

TBerk

On Jul 3, 12:06*pm, TBerk wrote:
The following link:

Relative size of our world:http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

Got me to thinking of big burning balls of gas in the sky.

Over the ages one must have been drawn into collision with another.

Are any available to the kind of telescopes we might have at home?

TBerk

How would you know? One possibility talked about he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_straggler

On Jul 2, 7:48*pm, Llanzlan Klazmon wrote:
On Jul 3, 12:06*pm, TBerk wrote:

The following link:

Relative size of our world:http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

Got me to thinking of big burning balls of gas in the sky.

Over the ages one must have been drawn into collision with another.

Are any available to the kind of telescopes we might have at home?

TBerk

How would you know? One possibility talked about he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_straggler

OK, Thx. As for how would you know- well I would think the collision
of two stellar masses would be a spectacular and demonstrative event.


TBerk

On 2008-07-04, TBerk wrote:
On Jul 2, 7:48*pm, Llanzlan Klazmon wrote:
On Jul 3, 12:06*pm, TBerk wrote:

The following link:

Relative size of our world:http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

Got me to thinking of big burning balls of gas in the sky.

Over the ages one must have been drawn into collision with another.

Are any available to the kind of telescopes we might have at home?

TBerk

How would you know? One possibility talked about he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_straggler

OK, Thx. As for how would you know- well I would think the collision
of two stellar masses would be a spectacular and demonstrative event.


It might be -- though a really spectacular interaction would end up
destroying both stars, and that clearly doesn't always happen (if it
*ever* does) or we'd never find any blue stragglers today. Stellar
collisions are very rare events. Even in the dense globular clusters,
it's expected that there might be a couple hundred collisions over the
whole ~10 billion year lifetime of each cluster. So maybe a few tens of
thousands over the lifetime of our galaxy. And they'd be brief events,
so unless we were very lucky we'd not see one within our lifetimes.
And, they'd almost certainly happen in the densest part of the core of
the star cluster, so they'd be hard to see clearly if we did catch one.

On Jul 3, 12:06*pm, TBerk wrote:
The following link:

Relative size of our world:http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

Got me to thinking of big burning balls of gas in the sky.

Over the ages one must have been drawn into collision with another.

Are any available to the kind of telescopes we might have at home?

TBerk

How about looking at a quasar?

Cheers

TBerk wrote:
The following link:

Relative size of our world:
http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

Got me to thinking of big burning balls of gas in the sky.


Over the ages one must have been drawn into collision with another.

Stars are indeed very large compared to the Earth. But the space
between them is ever so much larger still. For this reason stars do not
generally run into one another on any timescale, much less on a
timescale short enough that we can observe it. The primary exception is
the coalescence of stars in a very close binary system, but this too is
something which occurs too rarely to be observed.

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