Hubble Finds a Mystery Object (something that astronomers cannot make any sense of)

Sky And Telescope ^ | 9/11/08

[redstateconfidential]

The most brilliant episode of MST3K, IMHO!

[LibWhacker]

Sorry for the mangled English in my explanation, lol! Upon re-reading it, it’s even more mangled than the statement you originally asked me about. English was never my strong point. :-(

[Political Junkie Too]

An FTL spaceship turned on their high beams?

-PJ

[Mr. K]

Sure, go ahead...

[LibWhacker]

Here are some constellations with the boundaries clearly marked:

So everything we see in the sky falls into a constellation or straddles the boundary between two or more constellations. (It's confusing if you just look at the funny little ancient stick figures which depict the constellations, without the boundaries being clearly marked.)

[Army Air Corps]

It is one of my personal favourites. Heck, it is in my Top Ten list.

[bigheadfred]

WOW!!! Thank you, thank you!!!!!

I’ve been waiting 20+ years.....

[Stonewall Jackson]

[Rudder]

Bootes is a constellation in the Northern Sky.

Neat.
I never even knew of its existence before and I'm planning on taking a test on celestial navigation.
(Time to actually study up on this.)
That color-chart makes it a whole lot easier to conceptualize---thanks!

[2CAVTrooper]

"One of the interesting things about people (females, I assume) on alien planets: They're never flat-chested. Why is that?"

Dunno...Maybe they're Fembots?

[Lancey Howard]

The fact that the “object” brightened and faded within generally equal time frames would seem to rule out an explosion or collision.

[econjack]

Are Fembots sold locally??

[Wuli]

My enduring acknowledgment about scientific discoveries, past and present, as well as future ones too I assume, is that each one always provides two categories of information. In one category we have a vast new amount of knowledge. In the second category, we have learned from the first that suddenly the amount and degree of knowledge we do not have has grown greatly.

The “universe”, and knowledge of it, is like an infinite onion and we always exist, in terms of knowledge, on the surface of one layer unaware of any deeper layers, until we accidentally stumble on them; finding how little, of the totality, we really knew before.

[isom35]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2082893/posts?page=73#73

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest. "I said Bud Light" ping.

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[Pajamajan]

Global warming. Bush’s fault. Bookmark

[Quix]

Thanks, will check it out.