The Sun Will Explode in a Billion Years
Artist's impression of how Type Ia supernovae may look like as revealed by spectro-polarimetry observations. The outer regions of the blast cloud is asymmetric, with different materials found in 'clumps', while the inner regions are smooth. Using observations of 17 supernovae made over more than 10 years with ESO's Very Large Telescope and the McDonald Observatory's Otto Struve Telescope, astronomers inferred the shape and structure of the debris cloud thrown out from Type Ia supernovae. Such supernovae are thought to be the result of the explosion of a small and dense star Ñ a white dwarf Ñ inside a binary system. As its companion continuously spills matter onto the white dwarf, the white dwarf reaches a critical mass, leading to a fatal instability and the supernova. But what sparks the initial explosion, and how the blast travels through the star have long been thorny issues. The study shows that the outer regions of the blast cloud is asymmetric, with different materials found in 'clumps', while the inner regions are smooth.
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The Sun Will Explode in a Billion Years So It’s Not Really Renewable – 5 Things Overhead at Climate Conference

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News from the Natural World: Who needs a breathable atmosphere anyway?

News from the Natural World: The sun will explode in a billion years and 5 other things overheard at climate conference.

Climate Conferences are a funny thing in the human world. Humans tend to hold them when confronted with a massive challenge. Say climate change, deforestation, overfishing or plastic pollution. Big whopping planet level threats. Confronted with said threats humans decide that flying in a load of first worlders on private jets to a vapid conference centre will do the trick. Secondly, it seems that the most common attendee of these climate conferences is actually fossil fuel lobbyists. Yep, they overwhelming make up the biggest proportion of guests. A bit like sending a T-Rex to a Vegan Festival really.

So here at The Platypus, we decided to attend one of the climate conferences to understand just what the hell were humans up to. So here are five things that we overheard at a climate conference.

Who Needs A Breathable Atmosphere Anyway?

This one took us by surprise, overhead at the bar by one of our reporters. It came from the lips of a rather sleazy looking exec, typical quiff coifed with oil.

The Sun Will Explode in a Billion Years
Suck up that smog

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