Two Suns? Twin Stars Could Be Visible From Earth By 2012

[prettypuyol]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/20/two-suns-twin-stars_n_811864.html

Comments

[essyllus]

if there's no night during that timeframe... what's the effect going to be on wildlife and stuff T T?

[oxfordtweed]

Minimal. Something like this would only last about a fortnight, give or take.

Frankly, I'd be more afraid of the doomsayers than the wildlife.

[layweed]

If you gotta go though, what better way than being sucked into a black hole?

[oxfordtweed]

Oh, I know, right? Betelgeuse is far too far away to suck us in, though. And Sol is too small to collapse into one (in theory).

Still, as often as Betelgeuse has been in the news lately, it's really starting to get my hopes up that this will happen sooner, rather than later.

[hushpiper]

This!