NASA Finds Star With a Tail 233
Andrew Stellman writes "NASA astronomers held a press conference announcing that a new ultraviolet mosaic from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows a speeding star named Mira that's leaving an enormous trail of "seeds" for new solar systems. Mira is traveling faster than a speeding bullet, and has a tail that's 13 light-years long and over 30,000 years old. The website has images and a replay of the teleconference."
Dropping seeds all over the universe? (Score:5, Funny)
Collision Course (Score:3, Funny)
The NASA folks must have been watching bad films (Score:4, Funny)
They should tell us how many parsecs it could do the Kessel run in.
NASA discovers G-class star 8 light minutes away (Score:4, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira [wikipedia.org]
At the next NASA party- (Score:1, Funny)
Re:NAME IT SKYWALKER AND STOP BEING AN ASSFAGGOT (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Faster than a speeding bullet? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Faster than a speeding bullet? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Dropping seeds all over the universe? (Score:2, Funny)
Forgive me, the joke is obvious, but it had to be made
Re:Collision Course (Score:5, Funny)
Campbell or Willis?
I'd prefer the former; it would be... groovy.
Re:Dropping seeds all over the universe? (Score:5, Funny)
I think it started with the urge to deny the existance of Kirk-Spock sexual tension...
God says this is Impossible (Score:2, Funny)
That's Funny ... Stellarium (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Faster than a speeding bullet? (Score:5, Funny)
Is it more powerful than a locomotive?
Re:Relative to what? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Faster than a speeding bullet? (Score:5, Funny)
Does it . . . (Score:0, Funny)
The song remains the same (Score:5, Funny)
Flying at supersonic speeds
Though sound cannot propagate through a vacuum
Tail lightyears long through outer space
We know TFA will get the science wrong uh huh
And the dupe will posted in a week uh huh
Re:Dropping seeds all over the universe? (Score:5, Funny)
>I think it started with the urge to deny the existance of Kirk-Spock sexual tension...
What sexual tension? [youtube.com]
More powerful than a Wikipedia entry (Score:4, Funny)
Hmm, I guess I better edit the article on stadiums so that they can accommodate solar-massed objects while I'm at it.
Re:You can't see the tail with your eyes (Score:5, Funny)
But how long in football fields? (Score:2, Funny)
Scientist as Educator (Score:5, Funny)
From TFA as presented on MSNBC: "If Neanderthal man had ultraviolet eyes and could look above the atmosphere, he could have seen the beginning of this tail forming," study leader Chris Martin, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, said during a teleconference Wednesday.
AWEsome, d00d.
And, if they had ultraviolet eyes on 30,000 light year long eye stalks, they could not only see
above the atmosphere, they could see the tail as it formed, RIGHT WHERE IT WAS HAPPENING.
OH. OH. And if the DINOSAURS had ultraviolet eyes, and could see above the atmosphere, they could see it 65 million years BEFORE it happened. And they could probably also see that asteroid coming and build SPACESHIPS, no wait, SPACE DINOSAUR MOTORCYCLES, they could get off the planet before it got hit, and fly to that star and live there, and then 65 million years later all wag their tails at the same time and make the star shoot off gas and dust like a BIG TAIL that we could see, because they wanted to say hi and let us know they were all OK and we shouldn't be all sad because we thought they all got extincted.
I guess we can't all be Carl Sagan. Because then there would be BIL..... nevermind.
Re:Faster than a speeding bullet? (Score:3, Funny)
This sounds good, but... (Score:3, Funny)
rhY