Star Trek TOS - 013 The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane

Author:Diane Duane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

Jim let d'Hennish lead him over to another readout console. "This is something really extraordinary, Captain," the Sadrao said, sitting down at the console and bringing up a graph on the wall screen. "What I'm showing you is the way we get a sense of how any given star behaves over a length of time. We plot the star's absolute magnitude-that's its brightness on a standard scale-on the vertical line of the graph. Then the period of time over which we're observing it goes on the horizontal line. The method's being used in the past mostly for variables, but now we use it for all kinds of stars to forecast stellar weather. There's always a little fluctuation in the curve, even with the steadiest stars." D'Hennish patted the console, brought up a sample curve. "Sadr, my homestar. See the curve? A very very slight fluctuation, but regular. But look at one of the stars from the Lesser Magellanic." Another graph came up-and the star's magnitude line ran as straight across it as a flat EKG.

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