{"id":40485,"date":"2011-10-16T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T13:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/successful-stars-talk-dead-stars-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-10-16T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T13:36:17","slug":"successful-stars-talk-dead-stars-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/successful-stars-talk-dead-stars-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Successful stars talk dead stars | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I somehow missed it when it came out, but the folks at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu\/videos\/irrelevant\/\">IRrelevant Astronomy<\/a> have <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FO5kIj5BRho\">a great video<\/a> about how stars die, and it has Sean Astin (Samwise!) and Sandeep Parikh (Zaboo!).<\/p><p>IRrelevant Astronomy is a very funny web series about infrared astronomy put together by folks at Spitzer Space Telescope, and they&rsquo;re all pretty good. This one is a followup for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/10\/26\/felicia-day-collides-galaxies\/\">great video about galaxies<\/a> featuring Felicia Day. They also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/12\/06\/irrelevant-astronomy-dr-wheaton-edition\/\">have a couple<\/a> with a guy named Wil Wheaton. Never heard of him myself, but he has promise as an actor, I think.<\/p><p>If you have the time, you should watch &lsquo;em all. They&rsquo;re funny, and well done, and you just might learn something.<\/p><p><em>Tip o&rsquo; the beryllium mirror to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\/105473622219622697310\/posts\/HpEGSs5XR8V\">Jennifer Ouellette on Google+<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\"><em><p>Related posts:<\/p><p>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/10\/26\/felicia-day-collides-galaxies\/\">Felicia Day collides galaxies<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/02\/16\/astronomy-veronica-anemone\/\">Astronomy Veronica anemone<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/12\/06\/irrelevant-astronomy-dr-wheaton-edition\/\">IRrelevant Astronomy: Dr. Wheaton edition<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/05\/26\/robot-wil-wheaton-takes-over-the-universe\/\">Robot Wil Wheaton takes over the Universe<\/a><br><\/p><\/em><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rxBUSnhFFUS8RO-nw3VWEREmqI8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/80ee9_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rxBUSnhFFUS8RO-nw3VWEREmqI8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/80ee9_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/80ee9_EyTmaK0kMLE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/80ee9_w2v60r5Yg58\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I somehow missed it when it came out, but the folks at IRrelevant Astronomy have a great video about how stars die, and it has Sean Astin (Samwise!) and Sandeep Parikh (Zaboo!).IRrelevant Astronomy is a very funny web series about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/successful-stars-talk-dead-stars-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}