I'm writing a Star Trek story, and I need an interesting astrophysics-related phenomena that an obsessed astronomer could dedicate his life to studying. Something rare.
I will give you co-author's credit if I use your idea.
I'm writing a Star Trek story...
Elijah Jones
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Kevin Gomez
it's not exactly the most original idea but you could just go with stellar collisions
Jace Barnes
The great attractor
Levi Garcia
It's too late to be writing about it now lad.
You're living in it.
Ryder Sanders
He's starting to suspect that all the different species and scenarios in the Star Trek universe hint that they're existing in a simulation of some sort.
He keeps finding evidence of an entity named "R'den Bari" referenced in many ancient alien anthropological digs, a "Great Bird of the Galaxy" who is considered the Eldest, Creator God.
Ryan Martin
Noice
Cooper James
Gamma ray bursts
Nathaniel Reed
OI WOT IF STAR TREK WUZZA SIMYULASHUN FUCKIN MENTAL BRUV
Logan Barnes
The universe is huge, the galaxy is tiny.
You could spend a lifetime studying phenomena that are common in the universe and rare in the galaxy. What I think someone could spend their life studying are
Binary blackhole collisions. These are big news right now. They teach us a lot about gravity waves.
Type 1a Supernova. The standard candle of astronomy. We've seen hundreds of them across the universe and none in our own galaxy since the year 1604. The thing about this that makes it neat to study is you can study a binary star undergoing the process of becoming a Type 1a Supernova without ever seeing the supernova in your lifetime and your work is still important.
A T Tauri star undergoing nuclear fusion for the first time. The literal birth of a star. This happens about 100 times a year throughout the galaxy but I'm sure we can learn a lot about going to a location and watching it happen live.
Owen Johnson
A magnetar and what happens around it's insane 10^11 tesla magnetic field