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Posted on 08/21/2006 9:12:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The pulsar B1508+55, about 7700 light-years from Earth, is speeding away from our Galaxy to an unknown Galaxy. Scientists are perplexed with the speed at which this speeding, superdense neutron star is moving... Its discovery is puzzling astronomers who used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope to directly measure the fastest speed yet found in a neutron star... "We know that supernova explosions can give a kick to the resulting neutron star, but the tremendous speed of this object pushes the limits of our current understanding," said Shami Chatterjee last year, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "This discovery is very difficult for the latest models of supernova core collapse to explain," he added.
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Image credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
Hey, people who don't think the world is getting stranger need to surf the web. ;')
THANKS.
Another SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS!
Ah, those pesky Preservers are up to their old tricks again.
http://www.powells.com/biblio?PID=26832&cgi=product&isbn=0380792966
;-)
Or the Pak Protectors...
Hm, I actually had to Google that one :)
I've only read (correction: attempted to read) one of Niven's books ... the experience left me somewhat less-than-eager for another attempt :(
"Ringworld" and "Ringworld Engineers" were pretty much the last works of fiction I read, 20+ years ago, other than LOTR which I re-read before the first of the movies came out, just to refresh my memory. Those are amusing.
20 years (almost) without fiction? Holy moly.
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