NASA discover "exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood"
 

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 12:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 15, to discuss the Chandra X-ray Observatory's discovery of an exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood.

The news conference will originate from NASA Headquarters' television studio, 300 E St. SW in Washington and carried live on NASA TV.

Media representatives may attend the conference, join by phone or ask questions from participating NASA locations. To RSVP or obtain dial-in information, journalists must send their name, affiliation and telephone number to Trent Perrotto at: [email protected] by 10 a.m. EST on Nov. 15. Reporters wishing to attend the conference in-person must have a valid press credential for access. Non-U.S. media also must bring passports.

Scientists involved in the research will be available to answer questions. Panelists providing analysis of the research include:
- Jon Morse, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Kimberly Weaver, astrophysicist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
- Alex Filippenko, astrophysicist, University of California, Berkeley

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010...ra_Update.html


This is pretty exciting. I'm hoping for more than a comet. :thumbsup



By the way, did anyone hear about China, how they found something on the moon and they started to celebrate for some reason? And why did the USA send up a missile a couple of days ago and they clamed they didn't know anything about it? Whats going on in space? :upsidedow

goa'uld?
wraith?

SGU's job to deal with aliens

I'm going to wait until the GFY scientists verify the authenticity.

Maybe the Borg are coming to assimilate us. :)

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/...n_space_p.html

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I'm guessing we have a comet or asteroid headed this wayt in the next 50 years. Just a guess, but with all this "populating mars" shit going on, it wouldn't surprise me. :2 cents:

Space bubbles?

My god... It's full of stars.

No, zero chance. If there's a huge asteroid headed this way, we'll know well in advance of 50 years. Even amateur astrologists would pick up on it well in advance, so there wouldn't be any keeping secrets.

:1orglaugh

It will be nothing serious. They'll probably just announce that they received funding for some bogus let's-fly-to-mars program.
If it was a flying saucer, then we would have sent a nuclear missile there already.
But who knows, we did have a missile launch of unknown origin quite recently...

Haha, yeah, right. Dream on! The sky is huge and they are not monitoring everything.

All these worlds
are yours except
europa
attempt no
landing there
use them together
use them in peace
or we'll kick your ass

Its another planet. I think some UK researchers found it recently.

You don't know what you are takling about, thats quite obvious. :pimp

That's movies talking to you there.. NASA aint monitoring nothing but a fraction of the sky

It's the sun!

http://planetwill.jt.org/media/chara...rellcaray1.jpg

They found Jesus. And Bin Laden.

minicivan, stop posting pics of me. :)

Nice pic...my all-time fave movie and Zorg kicks ass.

I know!

One of mine, too

True. They are repeatedly spotting new shit. These things are easily missed in all that space. They're doing a good job of covering it, but as was mentioned earlier, they are only covering a small portion of the space that is out there at a time.

China was probably celebrating putting a man on the moon.

will be interesting to hear what they say

but SGU is too far away to help....

unless it comes from behind the sun.... or it's a comet... then we're fucked,,

Fucking replicators. Call Col Sheppard and Ronan Dex to take care of it.

2010 Space Odissey

¿And the world is ending on 11/11/2011 at 11:11 am?

What ever it is, it should be pretty cool. The Chandra X-Ray observatory has found alot of interesting stuff in its 10 years or so of operation including a Super Nova in our own galaxy.

The coolest, weirdest thing that Chandra has discovered is this (get ready to freak your heads out).

The Universe started with a Big Bang, right? All of the stars and galaxies are flying away from each other and have been for the past 14 Billing years or so. Common knowledge so far, right?

But get this:

The SPEED at which the galaxies are flying away from each other is INCREASING. Yes, increasing. It makes no sense. What is accounting for the increasing speed? Where is the energy coming from?

Expansion was slowing down, but something strange happened about 6 billion years ago with expansion began to speed up.

So cool...and so strange..

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/f_dkenergy.html

I think I read somewhere that they can only cover 3 or 7 % or whatever it was. It was a very small %.

And I'll bet it is scheduled to hit us on Dec 21, 2012 :helpme

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

It will probably have something to do with 2012 and it will end up being true after all.

That would be a hoot.

correct...anyone who thinks that we will have anywhere near 50 years warning of a major impact is out of their fucking mind.

it must be aliens on moon

hope its something really interesting :)

Hope its not aliens. That would probably go really badly for us ...

Arrakis!

1) Someone's watching our asses from up there
2) A Super nova is flying our way, bye bye everyone
3) It's a go go for the mars mission
4) They have found another planet

And NASA would hold a press conference on that? :1orglaugh

Nonsense. There is no "populating" mars stuff going on yet. Not for another 100 years AT LEAST.

Who mentioned flying saucers? That's right..nobody. Oh wait, you did!

That right there is stupidity beyond belief.

From behind the sun? :1orglaugh

The Deathstar and Darth Vader are coming.

that's it, we're fucked.

http://moxiepapa.files.wordpress.com...icture-431.png

Planet X. We all gonna die suckas.

if aliens are coming, we should all start buying alien sex domain names, that's the next big hype :)