Hubble Discovers Strange Object in Space

What’s even more surprising is that it also came out of the middle of nowhere, and astrophysicists have no idea how far it is; they know it can’t be closer than 130 light-years and further than 11 billion light-years. The object just wasn’t there before, it is now, and it doesn’t behave in any known way, making us arrive at one simple conclusion, that they have no idea what it is.

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What could it be?
Travellers from another dimension?...

Ive seen this before, cant remember where though. Has this already been posted?

that is cool thanks
ahh but atlast I got the 404 error page

Not gonna do RATS

That is pretty interesting. My thoughts are that it may have just "showed up" because the light from it barely reached Earth. It may very well be much farther away than they hypothesize. If I hear anyone saying OMG!!! This is Nibiru. I think I might hurl.



[edit on 12/9/2008 by ShAuNmAn-X]

If it is planet x we have a LONG TIME. Its millions of light years away.

The original paper,
DISCOVERY OF AN UNUSUAL OPTICAL TRANSIENT WITH THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE 1

by K. Barbary2,3, K. S. Dawson3, K. Tokita4, G. Aldering3, R. Amanullah5, N. V. Connolly6, M. Doi4, L. Faccioli7, V. Fadeyev8, A. S. Fruchter9, G. Goldhaber2,3, A. Goobar5, A. Gude2, X. Huang2, Y. Ihara4, K. Konishi10, M. Kowalski11, C. Lidman12, J. Meyers2,3, T. Morokuma4,13, P. Nugent3, S. Perlmutter2,3, D. Rubin2,3, D. Schlegel3, A. L. Spadafora3, N. Suzuki3, H. K. Swift2,3, N. Takanashi4, R. C. Thomas3,14, N. Yasuda10
(The Supernova Cosmology Project)
Accepted to ApJ: September 8, 2008
arxiv1.library.cornell.edu...


can be found here: (.PDF)
arxiv.org...

another thread about this:

Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzled

Originally posted by SuperSlovak
they know it can’t be closer than 130 light-years and further than 11 billion light-years.

Is'nt that a bit of a big margin? Give or take 10,000,000,870 light years

Bit like saying 'I know I left the remote control by the TV, or it could be in south America, or Mars... Don't just sit there, help me look for it!!'

Originally posted by SuperSlovak
If it is planet x we have a LONG TIME. Its millions of light years away.

Depends on how fast it would be traveling. It appears suddenly, out of nowhere.

Who is to say what it is..highly doubt any planet-x. More likely however some sun went nova a very long time ago and the light is just now reaching us.

Huge space ball lighting up just in time for Christmas maybe?



Cheers!!!!

[edit on 9-12-2008 by RFBurns]

Originally posted by Now_Then

Originally posted by SuperSlovak
they know it can’t be closer than 130 light-years and further than 11 billion light-years.

Is'nt that a bit of a big margin? Give or take 10,000,000,870 light years

Bit like saying 'I know I left the remote control by the TV, or it could be in south America, or Mars... Don't just sit there, help me look for it!!'

Using a wide margin like that leaves it open for interpretation..since they have no idea what it is.....or do they.


However the large margin gives them plenty of padding to speculate and throw out all kinds of theories and conclusions.


Cheers!!!!