Exotic star's 'violent ejections' during companion's visits Astronomers have released imagery of an "exotic" star which spurts out "regular ejections of matter" every few decades. The scientists theorise that this is caused by occasional interactions between the star and a longtime companion. The star HD87643, imaged by the ESO's 2.2-metre telescope at La Silla A cloudless sky lets …
But doesn't the phrase "regular ejections of matter every few decades ... caused by occasional interactions between the star and a longtime companion." just cry out for substitution of the word 'ejaculations' instead of 'ejections', and similar throughout? It IS friday, you know, and there are rules about this sort of thing....
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>> But doesn't the phrase "regular ejections of matter every few decades ... caused by occasional interactions between the star and a longtime companion." just cry out for substitution of the word 'ejaculations' instead of 'ejections', and similar throughout?
I think they were left unchanged on purpose, as an 'exercise for the reader'. Heck most of us probably made the substitution without even thinking about it.
Install python and the python imaging library (PIL), and run the program at the end of this comment on the big tiff image. It turns every over exposed pixel black. Some of the stars might emit more blue light than red and green, but all three components are maxed out in the bright stars so you cannot tell. You cannot even be sure of the colours of the stars that are not over exposed. You would have to find out if the picture is really made of red/green/blue components - it could easily be infra-red, ruby-red, red.
#! /usr/bin/env python
from PIL import Image
i = Image.open('ejecty_star_big.tiff')
Image.eval(i, lambda x: (x, 0)[x==255]).save('overexposed.tiff')
who the fuck pays for these boffins to do research into observing useless phenomena hundreds of light years away. How about doing something useful on this planet maybe. And don't give me the any 'enhance our understanding' / 'our place in the universe' bullshit. I don't care, neither should you.
These types of stars were being discussed in 1983 when I was doing a physics degree. My mate was doing astrophysics at the same time and we both knew about this class of stellar object -- unsurprising, since they were first described in the mid-nineteenth century (1860's I think).
Its almost certainly just a type C-J or C-H class carbon (or "sooty") star.
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