Star Flung From Milky Way at High Speed 512
fenimor writes "Using the MMT Observatory in Tucson, astronomers have discovered a star three times bigger than the sun, leaving our galaxy at a speed of over 1.5 million miles per hour (670 kilometers per second). The first-of-its-kind finding not only confirms an earlier theory about the existence of such speeding stars, but also reinforces the notion that the Milky Way spins around a black hole."
That's Life (Score:5, Funny)
Outcast Star (Score:5, Funny)
Instead they are going to call it a galaxy challenged star.
a giant ball of flame at a million miles an hour (Score:3, Funny)
Yep. (Score:3, Funny)
Fling out of the galaxy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Outcast Star (Score:5, Funny)
The Mayor Star of the Milky Way decided to form a committee to review the causes of "Outcast Star Syndrome". That committee, which will be composed of various leaders in the Star Community, along with interested Asteroids, Planets and Comets, will interview other Stars that have, through no fault of their own, also been cast out of the galaxy.
In six months, the Committee will issue a report that includes recommendations on how we can prevent Outcast Star Syndrome along with a 12 step program to re-integrate former Outcast Starts into the entire Milky Way community, with the hopes that they will become productive members of the community again.
Wish Upon A Star... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All kinds of morons on Slashdot... (Score:3, Funny)
Black + White reference (Score:1, Funny)
i sure wouldnt want to be in the way of THAT fireball
Why? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Fling out of the galaxy (Score:3, Funny)
Star flung out of our galaxy? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Fling out of the galaxy (Score:2, Funny)
In your example, succes or failure of this method would be irrelevant, though... Any outcome would be acceptable
Hindmost (Score:5, Funny)
Lever (Score:4, Funny)
Re:To put that in perspective... (Score:5, Funny)
the other way around (Score:1, Funny)
/. a star? (Score:2, Funny)
Man... (Score:3, Funny)
All we need now is a super-massive baseball mitt on the end of a hyper-massive wooden pole hooked up to a mega-massive generator spindle.
Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Outcast Star?! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Outcast Star (Score:2, Funny)
Oh... that's OutKast. nevermind.
Re:Man... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Little relativistic phenomena (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry, you're the not the first person to post disinformation on this site and get modded up as informative. Also, you should have worked with the metric values instead of messing around with the imperial values. Ye olde english system is great for measuring stuff in your trousers, but not as great for astrophysics.
Re:That's Life (Score:3, Funny)
Black hole? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Hindmost (Score:2, Funny)
Whiteholespewingtimeenginesdeadadviceplease.
Re:Relative speeds (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe, but it's *definitely* possible for a star flung out of Planet Hollywood to get sucked off by a black ho.
Re:Why? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:All kinds of morons on Slashdot... (Score:1, Funny)
[cue music]
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine thousand miles an hour.
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
'Round the sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at fourteen thousand miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
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Re:1.5 million miles per hour!! (Score:2, Funny)
Even more if you stand up and hold out your arms! (But they probably have a sign up to keep your arms and legs inside your reference frame at all times.)
Re:Why? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Relative speeds (Score:5, Funny)
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Re:Explanation (Score:1, Funny)
Google: "Did you mean: harry navel?"
No, Google, I didn't.
Wow, it's leaving fast. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Any astronomers out there? (Score:4, Funny)
Bruce
Re:Outcast Star (Score:1, Funny)
I vote they call the star "Fiorina".
http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/09/technology/hp_fio
Re:1.5 million miles per hour!! (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously though, what kills you is the difference in acceleration of the top and bottom - which is what the previous person said.
Re:Weapon Testing, Anyone? (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe it's just some alien race out there who wants to illustrate that they too, emjoy blowing things up with oversized guns.
Either that, or the gods are playing Katamari Damacy again.
Black holes have no hair (Score:4, Funny)
Do you mean that they don't have a mass limit? Because they definitely have a size limit. They're 0-dimensional.
Or are you thinking of the Schwarzschild radius?
Re:Outcast Star (Score:3, Funny)
Although maybe they are just trying to start a restaurant at the end of the universe.
And in other news (Score:2, Funny)
Looks like (Score:4, Funny)
Meanwhile, at the alien overlord weapons lab (Score:3, Funny)
G'nariak: "Sorry, sir. I had to take the wife to her obstetrician yesterday during lunch; I was in a rush; it won't happen again."
G'nok: "Damned right it won't. The Earthlings SAW the Star Destructor test! They were supposed to EXPERIENCE the test!"
G'nariak: "Again, sorry sir -- I'll make it up to you."
G'nok: "You damn well will -- we have to explain to G'tariak why his vacation home at the edge of the galaxy isn't there anymore. Dumbass!"
IronChefMorimoto
Re:What about relativity? (Score:2, Funny)
Our scientists have announced that they have almost compeltely ironed out the wrinkles in the new warp drive which began testing last week. The lead scientist, Zhuk'Urg, stated in reference to the project "Our test has been an almost complete success and we should be able to move our solar system nearer to the galactic center real soon now". No one could be found to comment on the suspicious blue screens visible on all of the computers at the research institute.
That was the good news (Score:3, Funny)