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Let’s go meet Weird Stars In and beyond our galaxy
Some are very odd and mysterious to see
Let’s go meet weird stars, there are many different kinds
They will blow your mind
Let's go and meet weird stars
We’ll travel very far
Out though our universe
I wonder, who we’ll meet first
Will we meet hypervelocity stars?
On the run –moving fast and far
Will we meet a hybrid star?
Where one star eats another star
Will we meet two merging stars?
So close that they can’t pull apart
Will we meet a travelling Red Giant?
I really love science!
MY Camelopardalis, a binary star
Orbiting so close, beginning a stellar-collision with each other
Two blue main sequence stars starting to share an atmosphere
Very soon we’ll merge into One supergiant sphere.
A Hybrid star - star inside a star, is that even possible?
Some astronomers say it is, and think that’s what we are
Called a TZO object, a neutron star inside a supergiant
I’m HV 11417 and I’m a TZO candidate
I’m Mira a red giant with an orbiting white dwarf star.
The gas that I shed forms a protoplanetary disk around my partner
Moving fast and leaving a gas trail called stellar wind behind me
It looks like I have a tail – I’m a true shooting star you see
I’m the Cannonball pulsar – a runaway hypervelocity star
in the time it takes to say my full name I’ll have travelled really far
The core of a supernova star whose explosion sent me hurtling through the galaxy
One of the fastest moving pulsars, I’ll keep running until someone catches me
Who else is out there?
Stellar Burst iPTF14hls
The bright light after a supernova, I should be fading out, unless...
I’m A Zombie Star –back from the dead, and may have exploded twice already
I’ll start to dim, then I’m bright again, I’ll diminish when I’m ready
A lopsided main sequence star, HD74423
I have a red dwarf companion that is so close it’s pulling on me
Less than 2 days to orbit each other, I’m distorted by its gravity
Which makes me egg shaped and causes pulsations on one side of me
SAO 206462 – a galaxy? No! I’m a Star!
But it’s a little hard to tell because I have reaching spiraled arms
They expand beyond me more than twice the distance that Pluto would be
where new planets are being born, my own solar system to keep me company
Completely dark, no more energy to burn, a dark mass in the cosmos
I’m a black dwarf star – and if I exist, nobody knows
I’m all that’s left when a white dwarf cools and burns out completely
Astronomers haven’t found proof I exist yet, but I make no light, so I’m hard to see
Who else is out there?
Let’s go meet Weird Stars In and beyond our galaxy
Some are very odd and mysterious to see
Let’s go meet weird stars, there are many different kinds
They will blow your mind
Let’s go and meet weird stars
We’ll travel very far
Out though our universe
I wonder, who we’ll meet first...
Will we meet A Diamond star?
With an enormous diamond at its core
Will we meet a Magnetar?
A zombie like magnetic star
Will we meet a vampire star?
sucking energy from its neighbor
Will we meet an exploding Wolf-Rayet giant?
I really love science!
XTE J1810-197 a strange star
I’m a neutron star that astronomers like to call a Magnetar
Dead or alive or maybe a zombie, I have a very strong magnetic field
Around a quadrillion times stronger than what the Earth can yield
I’m a peculiar binary star known as SS Leporis
Also known as a Vampire Star – because we transfer hydrogen between us
My smaller hotter star is sucking energy from the larger red giant star
This energy transfer keeps me looking brighter and younger
I’m Lucy, named after a famous Beatle’s song they say
I’m incredibly dense and cool for a star which causes me to vibrate
Not just a dim white dwarf star, astronomers discovered my secret within
I have a crystallized carbon core, or a heart made of diamond
I’m Apep a binary star on the verge of an extreme supernova
Both super-hot, bright Wolf-Rayet stars we live fast and die hard
Our ejected outer layers are creating a snake-shaped nebula around me
When we supernova we’ll release a Gamma burst - the most powerful type of energy
Who else is out there?
We've only scratched the surface
There are billions of stars, you see
But now we've met a few
And understand their diversity
Let's keep on exploring
Our wondrous universe
Keep discovering new stars
Which star will you meet first?
