Bizzare hole in space: How did it get there? (The Keyhole to heaven?)

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Cool-Astronomy/2010/0511/Bizzare-hole-in-space-How-did-it-get-there ^ | May 11th, 2010

[TaraP]

The mysterious hole in space seems to have been blasted into the side of a nebula by jets of gas from young stars.

There is a black patch of space in NGC 1999, and for years astronomers have thought it was just a dense cloud of gas and dust, blocking light from passing through. But the Herschel infrared space telescope – which has the ability to peer into these dense clouds — has made an unexpected discovery. This black patch is actually a hole that has been blown in the side of the nebula by the jets and winds of gas from the young stellar objects in this region of space. “No-one has ever seen a hole like this,” said Tom Megeath, of the University of Toledo in the USA. “It’s as surprising as knowing you have worms tunneling under your lawn, but finding one morning that they have created a huge, yawning pit.” Any previous descriptions of NCG 1999 said that the ominous dark cloud in the center was actually a condensation of cold molecular gas and dust so thick and dense that it blocks light. And astronomers had no reason to believe otherwise, until Herschel's powerful infrared eyes took a look from space.

[TaraP]

[bunkerhill7]

Gotta be an exit somewhere

[TaraP]

REVELATION 3:7

Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the *KEY* of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

[null and void]

[piasa]

Are they sure that isn’t the giant space fetus from Space Odyssey? :-)

[TaraP]

Revelation 5:1-14. In both chapters 4 and 5, the scene is in heaven. In chapter 4 we experienced the worship of God the Father. In chapter 5 we will experience the worship of Jesus Christ. These two chapters provide us a KEYHOLE glimpse of what will be going on in heaven before God pours out His judgments on the earth (Rev 6-18).2

[Yossarian]

A fine ship, until the “Moties” got to her....

[TaraP]

Massive runaway star near Tarantula Nebula races thru universe at 250,000 mph................................. A homeless star on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula is racing across the universe at breakneck speed

[I see my hands]

Maybe it's Ted Kennedy's butt.

[null and void]

We could have gone all day without that crack...

[freedumb2003]

>>Maybe it’s Ted Kennedy’s butt.<<

I think this is over analysis — it could just be Uranus...

[TaraP]

THE PISTOL STAR,,,THE BRIGHTEST IN THE UNIVERSE Dec 2009 http://www.universetoday.com/tag/the-pistol-star/

[Thunder90]

ping

[Kevmo]

Multiple ping lists would be interested

[I see my hands]

"I think this is over analysis — it could just be Uranus"

Heh heh heh!

[piasa]

It’s not a hole in space, it’s just a hole in a nebula. Like holes in atmospheric clouds what you get inside is just a continuation of the same emptyness in front of the cloud, in other words, just more space, not another universe.

[Loud Mime]

It looks like that aurora that they kept putting
around Obama's head before the election....

[freedumb2003]

I am so glad SOMEONE picked up what I put down...

;) :)

[piasa]

The universe would have been a far better space without Ted’s crack sitting around congress for decades.