New cosmic mystery: Herschel telescope spots giant hole in space

Space.com on CSM ^ | 5/11/10

[NormsRevenge]

Scientists say the discovery of a vast hole in space may provide a new glimpse at the end of the star-forming process. In this photo, an image obtained from the Herschel Space Observatory shows most the cloud associated with the Rosette nebula, a stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the Monoceros, or Unicorn, constellation. NEWSCOM

[VRW Conspirator]

BIden’s head?

[Last Dakotan]

Bush’s fault or maybe capitalism’s

[massmike]

giant hole in space

Now we know where Obama's birth certificate went....

[bmwcyle]

That is amazing.

[NormsRevenge]

ESA/HOPS Consortium

NGC 1999 is the green tinged cloud towards the top of the image. The dark spot to the right was thought to be a cloud of dense dust and gas until Herschel looked at it. It is in fact a hole that has been blown in the side of NGC 1999 by the jets and winds of gas from the young stellar objects in this region of space. This image combines Herschel PACS 70 and 160 micron data, and 1.6 and 2.2 micron data with the NEWFIRM camera on the Kitt Peak 4 meter.

[Glenn]

Why do we call such a violent place, "The Heavens"?

[NormsRevenge]

Herschel finds a hole in space
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMFEAKPO8G_index_0.html

[KoRn]

/mark

[mnehring]

I don’t see the hole but the pictures are cool.

[gargoyle]

...Sinkhole that sucks up the whole fookin universe???

...Maybe there’s some hope, all this SH!T will end...

[Bullish]

....something had blown a hole through the cloud.

Let me guess.... Obama's ego?

[NormsRevenge]

Beats the hell out of me. :-)

Things, from afar, can look a lot calmer than they really are.

[JRandomFreeper]

An ex-wife going through a wallet?

/johnny

[YHAOS]

Holy Cats!

[NormsRevenge]

It’s out there somewhere. :-)

I’ll check some other sites..

[gargoyle]

.../mark...
...I like that. Better than “save for latter”...

[mnehring]

The images fell in the hole.

[nomorelurker]

So someone ignored the obvious?

Looks like a hole but can't be it does not fit the model?

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and a hole is just a hole.