Cosmic burst in far away galaxy puzzles NASA

Cosmic burst in far away galaxy puzzles NASA

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NASA is studying a surprising cosmic burst at the centre of a distant galaxy that has burned for more than a week, longer than astronomers have ever seen before, the US space agency said on Thursday.

Calling it "one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts ever observed", NASA said it has mobilised the Hubble Space Telescope along with its Swift satellite and Chandra X-ray Observatory to study the phenomenon.

"More than a week later, high-energy radiation continues to brighten and fade from its location," NASA said in a statement.

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Hi all, although I have just joined up I have been reading here for months. Interesting to note this occurance in Draco of all places, given the signs of the times and all.

If we are indeed being targeted by reptilians from Draco as so many are convinced, one can but watch these kinds of developments

maybe they are being nuked to oblivion on their home world

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Sounds like a chain reaction is occuring.

It's at the center of a galaxy, so maybe they witnessed a black hole in it's final stage after using up all of it's energy. Or possibly they may be witnessing the formation of a black hole, or even a quasar that is sucking up lots of stars? Just a few ideas.

hmmm strange blasts near EQ's and random areas now crazy bursts in space....interesting. The plot thickens

Interesting read. Sounds like they are having a hard time explaining how the burst is sustaining itself for this length of time. Reasonable question. Perhapse this is the norm in the universe, but man hasn't been able to observe long enough to make an acurate judgement.



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Originally posted by hiphappa14
hmmm strange blasts near EQ's and random areas now crazy bursts in space.

no - not now......3.8 billion years ago.

as coincidences go it's a bit tenuous......

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Yeah I don't really see how a mysterious cosmic burst billions of light years away from Earth really relates to the problems around the globe.

Hey, maybe they're observing an alien race that's asteroid mining! I read somewhere recently that since SETI was just getting dial tone that maybe we should be looking for some other cosmic telltale.? OR like the man says, we've been around and able to look out into the Universe for such a short time that what do hell do we know about what's "normal"?

Originally posted by highfreq

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... but man hasn't been able to observe long enough to make an acurate judgement.
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Ironically enough.
Shouldn't that be the de facto conclusion for everything human-kind is observing now? Save for things like "humans are born, eat, grow up, east more, die"... who are we to assume that what we see within 10,20 or even 500 cycles of our Earth around our Sun is enough for us to have even the most vague of conclusions about our galaxy, much less our universe?

Originally posted by Highlander64


Hi all, although I have just joined up I have been reading here for months. Interesting to note this occurance in Draco of all places, given the signs of the times and all.

If we are indeed being targeted by reptilians from Draco as so many are convinced, one can but watch these kinds of developments

maybe they are being nuked to oblivion on their home world

www.smh.com.au
(visit the link for the full news article)

if it's in another GALAXY how can it be in draco? seems the stars of draco are in our galaxy. but the galaxy "in draco" is not in our galaxy. so strictly speaking, it's not in draco, but technically speaking, it's in draco if that's the direction of the sky, we point out telescopes to see that galaxy. one things for sure, it's waay the heck out there.

oh this is interesting. it's by a super massive black hole, and they think it's a star being pulled into the gravity well of the black hole. that means it's an active galaxy because it's feeding. if it's actively feeding, not much in the way of carbon based life is going to be anywhere near it, without sufficient technology to survive it. and i'm thinking if tech was needed to survive it, they'd just move their civs out of the way, to conserve energy and then just syphon energy off the ergosphere or something. i dunno. active galaxy=creation in progress which is somewhat like the genesis device in star trek: the wrath of khan (replaces prior material in favor of new matrix).

alien LHC gone wrong

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Could be a formation of a black hole near an already existing one.
Lets wait for the hubble and other obervatories to tell us wtf is happening there

In Carl Sagan's novel Contact, the aliens are constructing something in the Cygnus area, using black holes. The process generates all kinds of radiation and energy.

just sayin'

I think their "official" guess-work is pretty plausible. A star wandering into the central black hole is not only exciting but it may take a while for it to succumb. Or maybe it's multiple bodies recycling. If people get hit by lightning, then somewhere, sometime you are eventually going to get two stars recycling near each other.

Who knows?

PS - the pic they give reminds me of some early 90's space combat game. 16-bit, you know?

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It can't be explained, it is a phenomena. It has nothing to do with observing or not. If it can't be explained using the current theories, then it will be puzzling and they either have to sidestep the theory or declare that the theory is false.

I don't get the whole fuss, but all I know is that it can't be explained.

Interesting, this happened on my birthday. I've had some straaaange things happen since that day. Hmmm.

I have looked for it and can't find an article on it, but scientists have just recently stated they can be too sure of their accuracy of the position of stars. I believe it said because of the time it takes for the light to arrive in our view and the distance it moved by then.

Here is my scientific theory as to what it is....

It is a mass hurtling through the heavens on approach for earth at a rate of speed faster than any man on earth could ever conceive and it will arrive here in oh let's say 7yrs. That would mean Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" is wrong and would have to be rewritten!