The Death Star

The right side is a picture of the same event as the left side, just awesomer

     What a great title for an article, huh? I thought so, too. As you know I try my damndest to keep you abreast of all the scientifical datas and the astronomical anomalies, America, and I know you are going to like this one. From some nerds at NASA:

A nearby star is drubbing its close-orbiting planet with a barrage of X-rays 100,000 times more powerful than what the Earth receives from the sun, a new study has found.

That intense, high-energy radiation is blasting about 5 million tons of matter from the gigantic planet into space every second, researchers said. They made the observations using NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

"This planet is being absolutely fried by its star," said study lead author Sebastian Schroeter, of the University of Hamburg in Germany, in a statement. "What may be even stranger is that this planet may be affecting the behavior of the star that is blasting it."

 The star, which is located about 880 light-years from Earth, is known as Corot-2a. Optical and X-ray data suggest that Corot-2a is between 100 million and 300 million years old, meaning it's fully formed, researchers said. The star's one known planet, called Corot-2b, was discovered in 2008 by the French Space Agency's Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits (Corot) satellite. Corot-2b is about three times as massive as Jupiter, and it orbits very close to its parent star — just 3 percent of the Earth-sun distance (which is 93 million miles).

So if you agree with Michelle Bachmann and you think that God is trying to get our attention via natural disasters (remember her hurricane comments?), well, I mean, get a load of this shit. What if we pass national gay marriage and the Sun just totally obliterates us with x-ray beams? Now we know that it could happen. We had better elect her President just to be on the safe side.