Can A Star Mend Itself?

Evan Bradman loved to talk about heavens and high heavens and black holes and planets and all things galactical.

Galactic Junk and Catstranauts

So I heard that outer space needs a clean-up. There’s too much junk floating around up there. Really big stuff too, like discarded rocket parts, old satellites, and abandoned space stations. Apparently all this space junk collides and causes it to fragmentate – a phenomenon known scientifically as the Kesseler Syndrome. Sounds to me like they just smack into each other and bust into a gazillion pieces.