20090413

Overheard: I see dead stars

Astronomy 210, Spring Semester 2009
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

(Overheard in lecture during an in-class activity on main sequence lifetimes and lookback times.)

Student: "...so can we still see these stars, even though they're already dead?"

Instructor: "What? You want to watch the stars when they die?"

(Beat.)

Student: "Well...yeah."

Instructor: "You are sick."

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