Comments on: Could Mystery Outburst be a New Stellar Phenomenon?

By: RUF

RUF — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:39:21 +0000

Why can't it be red-shifted to determine distance?

By: Sakib

Sakib — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:58:58 +0000

What is so mysterious about this outburst is we don't know when it happened, was it recent or at the start of the universe? Its cool that the universe can never stop being full of surprises!

By: roger

roger — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:34:43 +0000

I really enjoyed the replies, a lot of 'cool' people out there!

By: Haplo

Haplo — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:58:36 +0000

That's easy: it's the ramscoop drive of the Nuwen arriving at our solar system in search for the device to stop the blight.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:44:15 +0000

I assume that this event recorded in 2006 has not repeated itself and it is probably too soon to determine if it is repetitious or a one time event.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:38:23 +0000

Lol…liking the joke of the LHC, I simply think it was someones fingerprint on the lense…or somone left the polish on the lense….either that or "God" farted and lit it….

By: Jari

Jari — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:43:16 +0000

Quoting the Hubble site: "The spectral fingerprints of light coming from the object, cataloged as SCP 06F6, also have eluded identification as being due to any specific element."

So it must be the light from planet Krypton's explosion

By: Mark ISP Review UK

Mark ISP Review UK — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:13:23 +0000

It's quite obviously nukes exploding from Battlestar Galactica (2003) doing battle with an evil race of incredibly hot robot cylon women. Science needs no further explanation .

By: Yael Dragwyla

Yael Dragwyla — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:18:48 +0000

Stephen — If you're right, that might account for the apparent asymmetry between one "side" of the observable and the user, as picked up in CMB observations by WMAP et al., as well as "dark flow" and the fact that we and a tremendous number of other galaxies all seem to be moving in the direction of the Great Attractor, whatever it may be. The Great Attractor may instead by the Great Repulsor,180 degrees across the sky from the point we all seem to be heading for, the result of a Little Bang.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:58:13 +0000

Maybe we just saw another Big Bang a long long way off. It would hopefully stop the arrogant theory of there having been nothing before ours, and the realisation that maybe the universe has always been here and goes forever and our big bang was just a local incident. Now that's exciting

clear skies
Stephen

By: Irwin Weisberg

Irwin Weisberg — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:11:01 +0000

Maybe it was just Bootes shaking. Astronomers need to look down once in a while to be able to recognize these, when they occur.

By: Rey

Rey — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:13:33 +0000

We have witnessed an alien civilization being annihilated because they were sending out signals looking for E.T.

We're next.

By: El Tejon

El Tejon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:44:57 +0000

Light emitted from the distruction of Alderaan?

By: Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:17:03 +0000

Thanks Sili, I'm being buried under press releases and my mind is not at tip top form!

By: Sili

Sili — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:01:28 +0000

A phenomenon.
Two phenomena.

By: Astrofiend

Astrofiend — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:12:34 +0000

Damn I love these serendipitous discoveries of transients. I am literally foaming at the mouth for LSST to come online – in my opinion it is akin to bringing a video camera to the heavens when all we have currently is an old SLR (yes – I just referred to our finest telescopes as 'old SLRs'. Ballsy.).

Clearly many new classes of transient event will be discovered with it, when we are 'rolling tape' almost all of the time.

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:41:33 +0000

…100 days?
…what if 2000 years ago, one just like it wrote history

By: Hans Bausewein

Hans Bausewein — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:04:25 +0000

Finally …

Aliens!

o, no, where Occam's razor ?

Hans