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Originally Posted by BigDon
Are there any photographic examples of main sequence stars, 1 solar mass or higher, being torn open and exposing the core or even tearing the core open? I guess even one being blasted by unimaginable stellar winds would count as well.
Kind of hard to imagine anywhere where this would happen where we could see it. At least in the visible spectrum.
(Sorry, I feel like having my mind boggled today.)
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BigDon. Years ago I read an article in The Los Alamos Journal of Science...circa 1986??..(they print two copies a year I think, Spring and Fall...)...about a pulsar passing through the Earth in a simulation. Perhaps the author(s) have made a similar simulation for a star. (The Earth survived the experience in the computer, which was a surprise, but it took a long time for the melted crust to anneal....I had imagined such a collision to be annihilation of the planet, with a debris ring of asteroids...not so.) pete
