Talk:Nemesis (star)
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Surely, you mean 24 billion kilometers?
Does this theory predate or postdate Isaac Asimov's book Nemesis? In either case, should a reference to it be made? — Jor (Talk) 14:56, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- The theory came first. --Dragons flight 23:30, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)
but star wars came even before that. so perhaps the "death star" mentioning is incorrect. ??
I'm little initiated in astronomy, but I am interested. I have a question: If Nemesis exists, it is the second closest star to Earth, and however small, much bigger than any planet, and however weak, emitting at least some light itself. How is it then possible that we can't see it with the most advanced telescopes we have got?--Caesarion 10:09, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I checked it out myself: If Nemesis exists we can see it with even a small telescope; we just have to identify a star (of 3,000 candidates), e.g. by checking its distance to Earth with the parallax method.--Caesarion 10:23, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Some people have also proposed that it could be a brown dwarf, which would make it much harder to detect. bob rulz 08:54, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
Death Star
Star Wars came out in 1977 and this article reports that Nemesis was first proposed in 1984. If Star Wars came first, and it was already huge by 1984, how could the Death Star nickname have "fallen out of usage due to its fictional use in the Star Wars universe." - SimonP 20:53, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
- You probably need to ask User:L. who is the one that added that material, but if I were to make a random guess, perhaps some people wanted to refer to it as the Death Star and did for a while, but that it never caught on because the public at large had already equated Death Star to Star Wars. Dragons flight 21:52, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)