I should add a rather neat thing about suns being so big gravitationally it is actually hard for things to hit them they tend to get slingshotted as they spiral inwards and given the above effect you can see it is rather important that they do.

Hits would be rare but not impossible.

Last edited by Orac; 02/17/12 03:30 AM.
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