Space Video of the Day - 071027

George Lucas made the term "Death Star" famous. His version of the Death Star was a manmade object capable of destroying the planet that it orbited. Well, nature has done George Lucas one better. There are real Death Stars throughout the universe, natural objects that would wipe out all life on Earth from a vast distance; if one went off three hundred light years away, it would cook the Earth with the energy of a million suns, like a nuclear blast everywhere on earth at once. Today's space video of the day is a BBC documentary (in five short parts) on these natural Death Stars, the sources of Gamma Ray Bursts.






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