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

Sky And Telescope ^ | 9/11/08

[TaraP]

I know!
How many people do you think are going to be staring in the Sky October 14th???

Wonder if Europe is privvy to Project Blue..hmmmm...

[LibWhacker]

Yeah, an very unstable one. :-)

[LibWhacker]

a very...

[Redleg Duke]

Luke got the Deathstar!

[McGruff]

I was just in a conference room with an engineer who worked on Hubble and still is. He didn’t know anything about this. Looks like spittle to me.

[swarthyguy]

Call it Sarah!

[LibLieSlayer]

Aye... the containment field collapsed Captain and the anti matter mixed with the dilithium crystals.

LLS

[cripplecreek]

I’m not going to worry about it. Sounds like they’re friendly.

[econjack]

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

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Is it the theremin that drives her nuts?”
Yeah,,, but I’m not supposed to play any of my collection of classical electronic music within her hearing. I’ve worn out 3 vinyl copies of Electronic Music at Columbia/Princeton.

[Army Air Corps]

Krankor, Prince of Space will defeat you even if he is disquised as a lowly bootblack!

[matthew fuller]

The twelfth imam.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It’s the formation of an extra-galactic black hole.

[Army Air Corps]

I imagine that Kraftwerk would really drive her batty!

[LibWhacker]

Bootes is a constellation in the Northern Sky.

The whole sky is broken up into regions called constellations. If a star or object is seen in that region of the sky, it's said to be "in" the constellation, even if it's far beyond (and behind) the arrangement of nearby stars that make up the constellation; i.e., far out in deep space. In this case, it's "in Bootes," in particular, in an area of Bootes that otherwise seems to be void of stars and galaxies.

[MHGinTN]

I wonder, has the universe been around long enough for an entire galaxy to be in its last throes being gobbled up by a massive black hole?

[gitmo]

Infra-redlight district.

[Army Air Corps]

Yikes! Those folks are smoking some serious weed. And crack. While dropping acid.

[bigheadfred]

They're never flat-chested. Why is that?

You have to ask? :-)

[Verginius Rufus]

They don’t know what it is, but at least they are able to narrow down the distance to between 130 light-years and 11 billion light-years. That’s reassuring.