CharmQuark Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 NASA Announces Televised Chandra News Conference dra X-ray Observatory's discovery of an exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood. Anybody got any ideas what it could be? Charms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeti monster Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Rama? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharmQuark Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 I dunno what that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Ritchie Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Rama? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharmQuark Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Ritchie Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 "cosmic neighbourhood" is a rather ambiguous choice of phrase, I assume it means extragalactic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharmQuark Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 Dunno what is means LOLI just put here and hope you guys can steady me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capricorn Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Rama? At least we will get 3 attempts at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astro_Baby Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 According to a news item I heard they are 'bubbles' within our own Galaxy. Never seen before cos bo one was looking that direction with with an X-Ray scope in the past.Mucho drivel on the news program though so not really much wiser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Ritchie Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 According to a news item I heard they are 'bubbles' within our own Galaxy.Sure that's not the recent Fermi result? NASA - NASA's Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharmQuark Posted November 15, 2010 Author Share Posted November 15, 2010 NASA's chandra finds youngest nearby black holeNASA - NASA's Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black HoleEnjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Ritchie Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 Paper's here - [0912.1571] Evidence for a Black Hole Remnant in the Type IIL Supernova 1979C The high and steady luminosity is considered as possible evidence for a stellar-mass (~ 5-10Msun) black hole accreting material from either a supernova fallback disk or from a binary companion, or possibly from emission from a central pulsar wind nebula. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharmQuark Posted November 15, 2010 Author Share Posted November 15, 2010 I love this stuff thanks for the link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mijijim Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 Hi, Philip K [removed word] wrote about Rama. mijijim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon84 Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 Hi,Philip K [removed word] wrote about Rama.mijijimPKDick to you too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glider Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 Arthur C. Clarke wrote 'Rendezvous with Rama' about a huge space ship approaching Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mijijim Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 Arthur C. Clarke wrote 'Rendezvous with Rama' about a huge space ship approaching Earth.Hi, You are quite right. I was going to put, Or was it Arthur CClark, Which would have given me two posts for the priceof one. mijijim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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