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NASA to reveal new object
« on: November 13, 2010, 06:45:49 AM »
NASA will hold a news conference Monday 15th November to announce a major discovery made by the Chandra x-ray observatory. At 12.30pm EST NASA will begin a live conference detailing the discovery of an exceptional object in our cosmic neighbourhood.


Watch the broadcast on http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Source: http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1948485/nasa_announces_televised_chandra_news_conference/
« Last Edit: November 13, 2010, 01:16:18 PM by Chaotic Cow »

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2010, 09:02:38 AM »
Chaotic, the second link was wrong ?


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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2010, 11:45:22 AM »
I'm gonna see if I can stay home from school...  ;D
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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2010, 12:56:21 PM »
It's Saturday.

Unless you have Saturday school.  :P

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2010, 01:16:37 PM »
Fixed source.


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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2010, 01:35:13 PM »
He wants to stay home on MONDAY, November 15th derp

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2010, 10:07:05 AM »
Anyone have any guesses?

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2010, 10:54:18 AM »

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2010, 11:16:56 AM »
... Earth-like planet?
Oh wait.

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2010, 04:45:24 PM »
X-ray planet. ;D

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2010, 04:56:05 PM »
Supergiant Star

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2010, 05:04:03 PM »

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2010, 05:14:06 PM »

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2010, 05:19:26 PM »
Brown dwarf passing at 40,000-60,000 AU?

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2010, 06:16:12 PM »
Wouldn't a brown dwarf emit infrared radiation?

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2010, 06:27:37 PM »
X-ray planet. ;D

Maybe !

Planets and comets could both send and/or reflects (the sun) X-ray

- http://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0209/0209107.pdf
- http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMQVK274OD_index_0.html

All depends on what would be "cosmic neighborhood" to the article's author

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2010, 06:34:57 PM »
Lol derp fail

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2010, 07:57:53 PM »
I know what it is and no one has guessed it.



SPOILER!!!!!






http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/10_releases/press_111510.html



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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #18 on: November 14, 2010, 08:55:34 PM »
BORING!!!!!!!! I was gonna stay home for the youngest black hole? I thought it was an X-ray planet. :P

Kidding, but not as exciting as it seemed. Still interestin
g.  :)


I failed...  :-\
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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #19 on: November 15, 2010, 09:05:55 AM »
“NASA Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole

For Release: November 15, 2010

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SN 1979C
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/D.Patnaude et al, Optical: ESO/VLT, Infrared: NASA/JPL/Caltech
Press Image and Caption

Evidence for the youngest known black hole in our cosmic neighborhood has been found using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. The age and proximity of this object could provide astronomers with a unique opportunity to watch a black hole develop during its infancy.

The object in question is associated with SN 1979C, a supernova in the galaxy M100 discovered by an amateur astronomer in 1979. While many likely new black holes in the distant Universe have been detected in the form of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), this nascent black hole candidate is much closer, at a distance of only 50 million light years from Earth.

Data from Chandra, as well as NASA’s Swift, the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and the German ROSAT observatory revealed a bright source of X-rays that has remained steady for the 12 years from 1995 to 2007 over which it has been observed. This behavior and the X-ray spectrum, or distribution of X-rays with energy, support the idea that the object is a black hole being fed either by material falling back into the black hole after the supernova, or from a binary companion.”


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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #20 on: November 15, 2010, 12:54:17 PM »
Still pretty cool though.

I wonder what other things we will find in the future.

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Re: NASA to reveal new object
« Reply #21 on: November 27, 2010, 01:48:47 PM »
Not that I'm late... :P :P :P Which I'm not. :)

But... That's not very near. 50 million light years... But it's still small considering the entire universe is estimated to be 93,000 million light years. :P