Astronomers surprised by star with comet-like tail

Reuters ^ | August 15, 2007 | Will Dunham

[NYer]

This new ultraviolet mosaic image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft, released August 15, 2007, shows a speeding star that is leaving an enormous trail of "seeds" for new solar systems. REUTERS/ NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout.

[bamahead]

ping

[Humble Servant]

It’s Bush’s fault.

[JRios1968]

Rove, you magnificent bastard...

[Loud Mime]

Comet Tail?

[SittinYonder]

"There's a star with a tail in the tail of the whale," said one of the researchers, astronomer Mark Seibert

Mark Seibert has little kids, and at night when he puts them to bed he reads them Dr. Seuss books.

[jeddavis]

Pretty much everything you’re seeing in this picture and others like it are plasma physics phenomena. Gravity has little if anything to do with it.

[VeritatisSplendor]

This makes no sense physically unless Mira is moving through a thick dust cloud which is slowing down the ejecta. Otherwise there is no way the ejected material wouldn't continue moving through space at the same velocity as the original star (plus a radial component, so Mira would have a spherical nebula around it instead of a "tail").

The only reason comets show a "tail" is that there is a solar wind pushing stuff off of them in a particular direction, there is no analogy in this case.

[dragonblustar]

"seeds" for new solar systems.

Wouldn't it be more like floating debris? There isn't enough new material to form a star that would control a new solar system.

[Dick Vomer]

Rocketing through our Milky Way galaxy at 80 miles per second (130 km per second) -- literally faster than a speeding bullet -- the star is spewing material that scientists believe may be recycled into new stars, planets and maybe even life.

yeah..... "life" is trailing behind a star, in open space, cause doncha know that we've seen all kinds of that before. I've got no problem with somebody spewing stupid cr@p, but a least define what the cr#p is.... what do they mean "life".

I think the whole trend to finding "life" in or on another planet by some "academics" is to basically show all the Christians that "see, we're not that special. There is no "one God".

I feel sorry for them in a way. To not see the vastness of the cosmos and come away with a sense that for some reason in this churning cauldron we are here and are "special".

Just our existence in this solar system is amazing...The further along in college and post graduate education the more I became convinced of the fact that we are unique....because it makes no sense for us to exist by randomness.

[GulfBreeze]

Considering this came from reuters has anyone checked:
a) If the comet phot was altered or retouched
b) If any of the facts were exagerated (Maybe the tail is only a couple of light years long.)

I’m just sayin’....

[BibChr]

Nothing like this has ever previously been witnessed....

Then, according to the way materialistic naturalists approach the miraculous in the Bible, doesn't that mean that it can't have happened?

[wastedyears]

Space ping

[Doc Savage]

Whale of a tale I’ll tell you lad,.....

[snarks_when_bored]

He’s sump’n, ain’t he?

[JRios1968]

I’m tellin’ ya...

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Wouldn’t it be more like floating debris? “
“An’ I said . . .
Look here brother,
Who you jivin’ with that Cosmik Debris?” FZ

WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

[HoustonTech]

Scientists have no imagination.

This actually is the first real proof of extra-terrestrial intelligent life. What we are seeing is an intra-galactic spaceship exhaust plume, powered by a star sized fusion reactor. It’s obvious that the inhabitants of the spaceship are far superior to man; otherwise they would never have been able to harness all of that power.

That makes about as much sense as claiming that the dust from the star could be the seeds of new life!

[ClearCase_guy]

What we are seeing is an intra-galactic spaceship exhaust plume, powered by a star sized fusion reactor.

Death Star -- fully operational, and headed for Alderaan, with Grand Moff Tarkin in command.

[doc30]

That makes about as much sense as claiming that the dust from the star could be the seeds of new life!

their poont is that elements like oxygen and carbon are formed only when a star dies. The 'debris' given off by a dying star goes back out into the interstellar medium where it can accrete and form new star systems. the fascinating thing is that all of the carbon, oxygen and nitrogen in your body was forged in the nuclear furnace of dying stars a very long time ago.