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NASA

WASHINGTON — NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.

Live audio of the teleconference will be streamed online at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

OK, its probably not Planet X but with the way the world’s luck has been running it could be exciting………….or not.




  1. Les says:

    NBC says it is a supernova found in its early stage.

  2. ArianeB says:

    Yep, remnants of the last known supernova to happen in the Milky Way

    http://tinyurl.com/6gkhxd

    [Please use TinyUrl.com for overly long URLs. – ed.]

  3. Pmitchell says:

    where is the audio or video feed ? i went to the link but no info at all

  4. McCullough says:

    #3. Its suppose to air 1:00 Eastern

  5. Wild Bill Clinton says:

    This one is just prime for write your own punch line…

    NASA will announce that they found no intelegence in any level of US Government.

    NASA will announce that they found Amelia Earhart!

    Come on folks, you can top these two.

  6. danno says:

    #5 McCullough – today is Wednesday. Check your calendar.

  7. McCullough says:

    #7. DOH! I missed it……

  8. chuck says:

    They should have tried looking behind the cushions on the sofa first. Lots of stuff can be found there.

  9. Ron Larson says:

    Perhaps they can find the original moon landing video tapes that they lost.

  10. andy says:

    dick cheney’s soul?

  11. satman says:

    Oil on Uranus

  12. Sinn Fein says:

    I doubt that they’ve found intelligent life out there since they’d be waaay too clever to let us banana-fixated chimps ever find them…and to start annoying.

  13. RMR says:

    “There will be an additional season of Battlestar Galactica!”

  14. RMR says:

    “The last cyclon is David Hasslehoff. That is all.”

  15. Hugh Ripper says:

    Perhaps its Iraq’s WMDs?

  16. Peter iNova says:

    140 year old supernova remnant in the Milky Way. Minus the light speed photon travel time of 26,000 years. Would have been brand new in about 1680. It’s still expanding at about 0.05 C.

    There’s a much bigger one out there that is far closer, but we won’t see it for a while because the light hasn’t reached here, yet.

    I like things that are far closer.

  17. boru says:

    Dear Peter (#17)–

    Nice thoughts of time through space and standing in temporarily for BubbaRay.

  18. boru says:

    Dear Peter (#17)–

    Nice thoughts of time through space and standing in temporarily for BubbaRay’s wisdom.

    Hope you haven’t infringed on a patents already obtained for iNova.

    As Tihz Ho would say, cheers!

  19. MikeN says:

    NASA is still a waste of money.

  20. Peter iNova says:

    I got the date wrong, though… The boom was seen about 1868-ish.

    The next one will be called My Nova.

  21. BubbaRay says:

    The latest Chandra podcasts are here.

    More information about the latest discovery is here.

    Thanks, KD! And thanks to #18 Boru for the stand-in!

    #17, Peter iNova, distance to G1.9+0.3 has not yet been accurately determined, according to the info I’ve received.

    “Based on its small size, it was thought to have resulted from a supernova that exploded about 400 to 1000 years ago.” If it’s 26,000 ly. distant, then the age data doesn’t make sense. It would have exploded at least 26,000 years ago.

  22. JPV says:

    danno said

    #5 McCullough – today is Wednesday. Check your calendar.

    ———-

    I see that’s it’s business as usual around here.

    LOL…

  23. JPV says:

    satman said

    Oil on Uranus

    ———-

    Already found…

    http://www.myalli.com/

  24. amodedoma says:

    Hey iNova, careful what you wish for. A Supernova at less than a 1000 lightyears would definitely qualify as an extinction level event. Lucky ones on one side of the planet burnt to a crisp, for the other side slow death. Fortunately it’s highly improbable, sure hope our luck holds out. This is great science though, nothing like observable phenomenon to give credibility to a mathematical model.

  25. Dallas says:

    God is on his way. Look busy.

  26. ATLien says:

    All the technology in the world, and they use Real Media…


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