An artist's rendition of a star cluster.HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS
An artist's rendition of a star cluster.HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS
Seen the article at sciencedaily.com. That is one cosmic curveball to say the least.
passed through two black holes?
WTF?
well, if this guy’s coming right at us....
we may as well enjoy today (despite the crooks and enemy agents in WashDC)
since they gonna take over a smashed=up earth, anyway...
all they gonna wind up with is rubble, debris, and space dust
Its the weekend, ENJOY!
(Apres moi, le deluge)
Better sell stock in insurance companies on Monday. This will do a lot of damage here on earth!
Maybe this is the quickest way to travel between galaxies. Just flung a star cluster out.
It’s the Borg, and we are so dead when they get here.
I’ve always had an avid interest in what goes on “out there”, and watch every offering on the subject on TV, as well-and I thought there was agreement that the speed limit in the universe was the speed of light, as per Einstein’s findings-have I missed something?
You have to really T somebody off to have that happen.
“a star cluster” ... “a dozen light years across” ... is heading for Earth ... and this broad cluster ... “is expected to endlessly drift through space” ... “rocketing.”
Doesn’t really sound like it will:
a) drift
b) endlessly
Given its speed of “more than two million miles per hour” and that it’s *not* “generally in the direction of earth” but *IN THE DIRECTION of earth.*
Given how broad the cluster is, it sounds like earth is pretty much in the path.
Given that, “endlessly” also does not sound likely?!
The basis for this discovery is described in a paper, which is available in pdf format at this link.
Here's Figure 2 of the paper, showing an image of the object ( inset ) and the spectral classification according to the "uiK" system, analogous to "RGB" and other color systems. The blue and red objects are "high" and "low" velocity objects, and the diagram serves to justify the classification of this object as an HVGC.
Note that the velocity is of course measured along the line of sight, so it by no means implies that it's "coming right at us." Also note that the inset image is "archival", from the Canada France Hawaii Telescope .
Have you ever been thrown out of a galaxy, Mr. Charles?
Don Ho; Tiny Bubbles [last fm]
555.6 miles per second....near relativistic speeds .035c.
Should be interesting time effects relative to surrounding slower space objects.
HVGC-1: I got thrown out of a galaxy in M87. Now when I say I got thrown out of M87, I don’t mean they asked me to leave, and we walked to the edge of forever together, and I said, “Bye, everybody, I gotta go.” Six star bouncers hurled my cluster out of there like I was Frisbee (one of Earth’s leading intellects).......
Ron White & a Twilight Zone ref.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ron_White
That’s even faster than this;
“One million miles an hour headed out to where the down boys go”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb2Q0QMqT34
Probably a racist.
