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Old 20-04-2008, 19:58   #17
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Re: Take cover Andromeda's coming.
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Originally Posted by Mick View Post
They say there is quite a few astronomical events that could wipe out life on Earth. It's up to us if we believe them or not.

If your worried about big celestial bodies hitting us - fear this monster if it ever came our way its in this galaxy:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7hsQA3wo3Q

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

On the Wiki page you can see its size in comparison to our own Sun.
The shear size of Cepheus's in comparison to our own Sun is incredible, like a grain of sand compared to a football. But if the Earth does survive the Andromeda event, we can look forward to our own Sun expanding into a red giant, apparently Mercury and Venus will be engulfed and the Earth rendered uninhabitable due to the extreme heat, but we have some time yet, about 6 billion years.
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