As the cosmic clock ticks down, what’s the last giggle of the universe's most notorious ball of gas? "It's not the heat, it's how you radiate it!" Nova Brightly cackles, dimming but ever the star.
Starfriend Sirius: "You still owe me those supernova cards."
Nova Brightly: "I’ll pay you in stellar dust... or maybe just dust."
If you find yourself floating past a dying star and it opens its metaphorical mouth, brace yourself for something like this: "I once had friends, but they all went red dwarf. Look at me now, expanding, contracting... mostly expanding my grip on the universe."
Join us for a galactic tour of snippets from the final stand-up routines of stars. Who needs a script when you have billions of years of experience fumbling the cosmos?
Stars have the best punchlines, they hit faster than light, but do they rhyme? Fizzbang the Red Giant has some questionable advice.
Still spinning around an ancient sun? Check out The Supernova Chronicles and lose yourself in the past.
Remember, the universe has a way of exploding your expectations... quite literally.