Apparently, the Death Star Was Destroyed 1,500 Years Ago
This is U Camelopardalis , a carbon superstar 1,500 light years away from Earth , in the configuration of the same name , near the North Celestial Pole . U Cam — as it is known — is at the end of its life , erupt layers of material from time to time : Every few thousand age , U Cam coughs out a closely spherical plate of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse ....