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Monmatia and Star BP Piscium |
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Photo Credit: Marshall
Perrin, UCLA Astronomy |
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Star BP Piscium in Pisces
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"As Angona more closely approached the sun, at moments of maximum expansion during solar pulsations, streams of gaseous material were shot out into space as gigantic solar tongues. At first these flaming gas tongues would invariably fall back into the sun, but as Angona drew nearer and nearer, the gravity pull of the gigantic visitor became so great that these tongues of gas would break off at certain points, the roots falling back into the sun while the outer sections would become detached to form independent bodies of matter, solar meteorites, which immediately started to revolve about the sun in elliptical orbits of their own.
"As the Angona
system drew nearer, the solar extrusions grew larger and larger;
more and more matter was drawn from the sun to become independent
circulating bodies in surrounding space. This situation developed
for about five hundred thousand years until Angona made its closest
approach to the sun; whereupon the sun, in conjunction with one of
its periodic internal convulsions, experienced a partial disruption;
from opposite sides and simultaneously, enormous volumes of matter
were disgorged. From the Angona side there was drawn out a vast
column of solar gases, rather pointed at both ends and markedly
bulging at the center, which became permanently detached from the
immediate gravity control of the sun." |
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"Some of the
variable stars, in or near the state of maximum pulsation, are in
process of giving origin to subsidiary systems, many of which will
eventually be much like your own sun and its revolving planets. Your
sun was in just such a state of mighty pulsation when the massive
Angona system swung into near approach, and the outer surface of the
sun began to erupt veritable streams -- continuous sheets -- of
matter. This kept up with ever-increasing violence until nearest
apposition, when the limits of solar cohesion were reached and a
vast pinnacle of matter, the ancestor of the solar system, was
disgorged. In similar circumstances the closest approach of the
attracting body sometimes draws off whole planets, even a quarter or
third of a sun. These major extrusions form certain peculiar
cloud-bound types of worlds, spheres much like Jupiter and Saturn." |
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