CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – Why’s Guy’s Dave Leake came on the morning show to talk about the death of stars and how you can see them in our night sky. Copyright ...

When you go outside at night and gaze upon the sky ... of the star’s lifetime, a few thousand years is the blink of an eye. A star would have to be very, very near its own death for this ...

These death star beams would fry the surface of any planets within a few thousand light-years. If such a blast went off nearby it would briefly glowed as brightly as the sun in the sky ...