Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,

and it is my job, my responsibility, as an astronomer

to remind people that alien hypotheses should always be a last resort.

Now, I want to tell yo

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Once there was a star.

Like everything else, she was born;

grew to be around 30 times the mass of our sun

and lived for a very long time.

Exactly how long,

people cannot really tell.

Just like everyth

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How do you imagine the life of a scientist?

Boring and monotonous,

spending endless hours in the lab

with no social interaction?

Maybe for some but not Tycho Brahe.

The 16th century scholar who accura

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