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Death Star?

Last week’s column noted the strange stellar object SCP 06F6 — the focus of 100 days of intense energy that appeared from nowhere and then vanished, corresponding with no known natural phenomenon. I wondered if these were the muzzle flashes of ancient combat, since the light came from more than a billion years in the past. Reader Curtis Silver of Sarasota, Fla., notes, “So it was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away! Could it be that what was witnessed was the final battle between the Empire and the rebel fleet, culminating in the destruction of the emperor’s personal Death Star?”