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'Shot in the Dark' Star Explosion Stuns Astronomers
EurekAlert ^ | 12/18/07 | Astronomers

Posted on 12/18/2007 10:07:29 AM PST by crazyshrink

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1 posted on 12/18/2007 10:07:31 AM PST by crazyshrink
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To: crazyshrink

Looks like the “rogue star” theory has some credence...


2 posted on 12/18/2007 10:10:49 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: crazyshrink

White hole?


3 posted on 12/18/2007 10:12:09 AM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Spktyr

It was just some starship going to warp...


4 posted on 12/18/2007 10:13:19 AM PST by Don W ( Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.)
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To: crazyshrink

An extragalactic star?.......


5 posted on 12/18/2007 10:13:57 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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Target practice for the Death Star.

Leia is deeply saddened.


6 posted on 12/18/2007 10:16:13 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
White hole?

Must be something racist.

7 posted on 12/18/2007 10:17:54 AM PST by Tanniker Smith
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To: crazyshrink

The bottom picture looks like a galactic skid mark.


8 posted on 12/18/2007 10:19:06 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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I wonder how long a ‘long exposure’ is regarding the Hubble Telescope.


9 posted on 12/18/2007 10:19:35 AM PST by wastedyears ("I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: KevinDavis

Space Ping


10 posted on 12/18/2007 10:20:23 AM PST by wastedyears ("I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: crazyshrink
when they looked for the star’s parent galaxy, they saw nothing at all.

Maybe it was just a passing alien spacecraft throwing an M-80 out the window.....

11 posted on 12/18/2007 10:20:54 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
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To: crazyshrink
"Shot in the Dark" Star

I thought this was a post about Peter Sellers.

12 posted on 12/18/2007 10:21:23 AM PST by VirginiaConstitutionalist (Illegals contribute more taxes than welfare recipients. Maybe we're deporting the wrong people.)
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To: crazyshrink

The General/Chat, Science, and Astronomy topics are ideal for this subject.


13 posted on 12/18/2007 10:21:57 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: crazyshrink

Someone in Heaven left a door open.


14 posted on 12/18/2007 10:22:46 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
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To: Red Badger

Check out “intergalactic stars”
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question29.html


15 posted on 12/18/2007 10:23:10 AM PST by omega4412 (Multiculturalism kills. 9/11, Beslan, Madrid, London, Salt Lake City)
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To: VirginiaConstitutionalist

“I suspect everyone, and I suspect no one.”


16 posted on 12/18/2007 10:23:42 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: crazyshrink
"The explosion took place in the middle of nowhere"

Kids.

17 posted on 12/18/2007 10:25:36 AM PST by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: crazyshrink

Had long ago did this event take place?


18 posted on 12/18/2007 10:27:11 AM PST by T.Smith
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To: RandallFlagg; Tamar1973

19 posted on 12/18/2007 10:27:39 AM PST by JRios1968 (Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
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To: crazyshrink

It’s Bush’s fault!


20 posted on 12/18/2007 10:30:02 AM PST by VirginiaConstitutionalist (Illegals contribute more taxes than welfare recipients. Maybe we're deporting the wrong people.)
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