My guess is from 10 million light years away, class M, K and G stars are invisable. If one was disrupted, it might look like an O, B, A or F star (for a few hours?) until the wound healed, or the stars rotation turned it, so about the normal number of photons were hitting our telescope lens = essentially none. Since collisions are very rare, perhaps none have occured within 10 million light years for us to observe.
I suppose the neutron star that collided with Earth, passed though the diameter and kept going. If exiting at 0.0001 c, I would think a very large exit hole and considerable heating of most of the rest of Earth. Neil
Last edited by neilzero; 19-May-2008 at 02:56 AM.
Reason: modest changed to considerable
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