The Life of a Star: 12 Billion Years in Six Minutes

Voila, the birth, life and death of a G-type star, like our Sun. 12 billion years boiled down to six simple minutes. We’ve added it to our YouTube Favorites.


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  1. Hoagy Kartofel says . . . | December 30, 2008 / 6:34 am

    Alas, many of the colors shown here are not “visual” but “representational.” In other words, this is NOT what you would “see” if you could witness these events. A disclaimer may have been in order.

  2. Cactus says . . . | March 21, 2012 / 3:17 am

    This is a scam. 15 zsecond add to get not the 6 min clip, I got 45 seconds, then another 30 second ad.

    And to think I almost shut the page down on the first ad.

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