seine_Dudeheit
Active member
Hm these days you can read strange articles everywhere. First all of those rumours concerning CERN and the black hole, that will swallow the earth and now something a little bit further away ... but still puzzeling.
seen onhttp://gizmodo.com/5049896/hubble-finds-unidentified-object-in-space :
This is exactly why we send astronauts to risk their life to service Hubble:
in a paper published last week in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists
detail the discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of
nowhere. I don't know about you, but when a research paper conclusion
says "We suggest that the transient may be one of a new class" I get a
chill of oooh-aaahness down my spine. Especially when after a
hundred days of observation, it disappeared from the sky with no
explanation. Get your tinfoil hats out, because it gets even weirder.
The object also appeared out of nowhere. It just wasn't there
before. In fact, they don't even know where it is exactly located
because it didn't behave like anything they know. Apparently, it can't
be closer than 130 light-years but it can be as far as 11 billion
light-years away. It's not in any known galaxy either. And they have
ruled out a supernova too. It's something that they have never
encountered before. In other words: they don't have a single clue about
where or what the heck this thing is.
The shape of the light curve is inconsistent with
microlensing. In addition to being inconsistent with all known
supernova types, is not matched to any spectrum in the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey database.
The only thing the astronomers—working on the Supernova Cosmology
Project—can tell is that it appeared all of the sudden in the direction
of a cluster with the catchy name of CL 1432.5+3332.8, about 8.2
billion light-years away. Hubble caught a spark that continued to
brighten during a 100-day period, peaking at the 21st magnitude, only
to fade away in the same period of time.
seen onhttp://gizmodo.com/5049896/hubble-finds-unidentified-object-in-space :
This is exactly why we send astronauts to risk their life to service Hubble:
in a paper published last week in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists
detail the discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of
nowhere. I don't know about you, but when a research paper conclusion
says "We suggest that the transient may be one of a new class" I get a
chill of oooh-aaahness down my spine. Especially when after a
hundred days of observation, it disappeared from the sky with no
explanation. Get your tinfoil hats out, because it gets even weirder.
The object also appeared out of nowhere. It just wasn't there
before. In fact, they don't even know where it is exactly located
because it didn't behave like anything they know. Apparently, it can't
be closer than 130 light-years but it can be as far as 11 billion
light-years away. It's not in any known galaxy either. And they have
ruled out a supernova too. It's something that they have never
encountered before. In other words: they don't have a single clue about
where or what the heck this thing is.
The shape of the light curve is inconsistent with
microlensing. In addition to being inconsistent with all known
supernova types, is not matched to any spectrum in the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey database.
The only thing the astronomers—working on the Supernova Cosmology
Project—can tell is that it appeared all of the sudden in the direction
of a cluster with the catchy name of CL 1432.5+3332.8, about 8.2
billion light-years away. Hubble caught a spark that continued to
brighten during a 100-day period, peaking at the 21st magnitude, only
to fade away in the same period of time.
