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One that is shooting water! A geyser of water is spurting up from the poles of a star that is 750 light-years from the earth at a rate of 124,000 mpg, creating "water bullets" that it shoots deep into space. If it has other planets around it, the inhabitants (if any) will have plenty to drink.

If this kind of star is common, there’s a possibility that stars like these distributing water throughout the universe. And since water is one of the things necessary for life as we know it, it implies that life is more common than we’ve thought.
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And WHY – In their unending search for extraterrestrial life, astronomers have discovered a new way to search for planets as small as the Earth that are in orbit around distant stars.

PhysOrg.com reports that this is something called Transit Timing Variation (TTV). Transits take place where a planet moves in front of the star it orbits, temporarily blocking some of the light from the star.

Meanwhile, scientists are trying to create THEIR OWN star. At a government lab are planning to use a laser the size of 3 football fields to set off a nuclear reaction so intense that it will create a star on the surface of the Earth. If it works, they’ll be able to solve the global energy crisis by using the energy generated by the mini-star.
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The southern pole star, Canopus, is rarely visible in thenorthern hemisphere, but it can be seen tonight south of theapproximate latitude of Los Angeles or Birmingham. It willbe the second brightest star after Sirius. By a seeming coincidence, this week’s Dreamland and subscriber interviews discuss Canopus and the ancient Egyptian belief that it was a stargate and the most important star in the sky.

Canopus will be well below Sirius and slightly to its right in the deep southern sky. Sirius, the brightest star in the sky tonight, will be in the high southern sky, immediately identifiable because of its brightness and its tendency to twinkle red and blue. Canopus will not be visible again tomorrow night.
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Was the Star of Bethlehem described in the Bible real? Using new knowledge about old astrological beliefs as well as computer planetary tables, astronomers have speculated that it could have been a group of planets, a meteor or comet, or a supernova. One problem is the uncertainty of Jesus’ birth date?the only thing scholars are sure of is that he WASN?T born on December 25th (no shepherds in the fields then).
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