its a serious question.
2007-03-22 02:24:57 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
You'd need some sort of mass driver that could nudge it slowly out of position; a mega version of some of the machines they've been designing to move an asteroid that might be on a collision course with Earth. In this case, it would also need be able to withstand the heat generated by the star.
It will be some time before we have the technology to do it.
2007-03-22 02:37:28 · answer #1 · answered by Flyboy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are two ways to do it:
1. steer a number of small objects into a close orbit around a planet and knock the planet off course by the slingshot effect. Arrange this so that the planet does a slingshot around a bigger planet and keep this going in a chain of collisions until a really big planet almost collides with the star. The gravity will pull the star and cause it to move.
2. Arrange some way so that the star burns hotter on one side than the other. The extra radiation it gives off will push it.
2007-03-22 09:46:38 · answer #2 · answered by Gnomon 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mankind has not devised any technology to even move the earth. Leave alone stars. Stars travel through the spase at millions of miles per second. The only force anything has on it is a black hole, or another star, or any other heavenly body bigger than it..
2007-03-22 09:40:22 · answer #3 · answered by MDA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most stars with large planets tend to look like they're "wobbling" slightly... it's how we first detected extra-solar planets to begin with.
All the planets in our solar system nudge the sun slightly, with Jupiter having the most profound effect. From very far away, our sun looks like it moves back & forth slighly due to Jupiter's nearly-10 year long orbit. And, to a lesser degree, from all the other planets orbiting the sun as well.
2007-03-22 12:00:00 · answer #4 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends...if it is on a paper, you can erase it if you do not like it...If the star is up on the sky, you can wait and see if it falls...Falling stars are wonderful...the most beautiful sight...So, perhaps the star you want to move will fall sometime, and it will surely fall on another sky...maybe that is your sky...so keep hoping...your star will move where you want one day...
2007-03-22 09:33:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Other than another mass, the poster above me is right.
If you could get a sort of jet of matter/energy coming off from one side, perhaps being aimed with magnetic field? You could get it to move.
2007-03-22 10:30:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would need a huge mass in proximity of the star to accelerate it using gravity.
2007-03-22 09:35:21 · answer #7 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wait an hour or two-it moves.
2007-03-22 09:32:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
With really, really big asbestos gloves.
Love Jack
2007-03-22 09:42:54 · answer #9 · answered by Jack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They move on their own accord...
Their fricking huge you can't fricking move one....
2007-03-22 11:27:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋