Hubble Telescope Finds a Mystery Object

[Siam Sam]

Story here (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/28244844.html?pageSize=0).

Excerpts: "In a paper to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, astronomers working on the Supernova Cosmology Project report finding a new kind of something that they cannot make any sense of.

"The mystery object did not behave like any known kind of supernova. It is not even in any detectable galaxy. 'The shape of the light curve is inconsistent with microlensing," say the researchers. They recorded three spectra of it — and its spectrum, they write, "in addition to being inconsistent with all known supernova types, is not matched to any spectrum in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database' of vast numbers of objects. 'We suggest that the transient may be one of a new class'."

[Gorsnak]

Just the Fithp mothership braking as it enters the solar system.

[Sunspace]

Just a rendering error. Nothing to see there. Move along.

[appleciders]

Just the Fithp mothership braking as it enters the solar system.
Let's hope they can't find a Foot!

[DMark]

Just another bright idea that didn't work out.

[cmyk]

It's a planet that just turned on their version of the LHC. Or, I should say, it was a planet.

[flodnak]

Dammit, I WARNED those kids not to play with matches!!!

[sturmhauke]

The Moties have fired a massive laser to drive a solar sail craft towards us.

[Mangetout]

A small hole in the sky dome, which the angels were able to patch almost immediately

[BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed]

Just the Fithp mothership braking as it enters the solar system.

If it braked that hard to avoid a collision, would it fithp off the other ship?

[First Amongst Daves]

Galactus belched.

More seriously, something very strange and very big blew up. Brrrr...

[The Understander]

Great shot, kid! That was one in a million!

[Zebra]

I hope it turns out to be my keys.

[beowulff]

It's the great prophet Zarquon!

[OttoDaFe]

My WAG, it's the accumulated foot odor emanations from the Jupiter-sized mass of socks that have disappeared from laundry hampers for a century or so.

Well, they had to go somewhere, didn't they?

[Cervaise]

This is what happens when you can't pay your Magrathean invoice.

[freckafree]

My WAG, it's the accumulated foot odor emanations from the Jupiter-sized mass of socks that have disappeared from laundry hampers for a century or so.

Well, they had to go somewhere, didn't they?

Well, duh! The mystery object is in Bootes! What else could it be?

[BaneSidhe]

It's the TARDIS!!

[Terrifel]

Guys, just wipe the lens once in a while.

[Marley23]

I expect that'll be the Mothership, carrying the Starchild to free our respective minds and asses.

[KneadToKnow]

It should be perfectly obvious that swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.

Right, Edgar?

Where's Edgar?

[Flander]

It's UNICRON!!!

[Mindfield]

It's a black hole that just ate some bad matter and is now throwing it back up. Once it finds a nice grass-covered planet to munch on it'll be okay.

[Sunspace]

It's a black hole that just ate some bad matter and is now throwing it back up. Once it finds a nice grass-covered planet to munch on it'll be okay.The only grass-covered planet I know of is...

:: looks around ::

...right here. Oh noooo!!!!

[teela brown]

It's Phssthpok. He's bored, he's tired of tree-of-life, and he's hungry. As soon as he finds out that we're not his species . . .

[UncleBill]

It's just a streetlamp.

[Chefguy]

Excerpts: "In a paper to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, astronomers working on the Supernova Cosmology Project report finding a new kind of something that they cannot make any sense of.


Michael Bolton's career?

[mnemosyne]

It's this guy (http://home.pacific.net.hk/~rebylee/text/le_petit_prince/html/ppchap14.html).

Bonjour!

Bonsoir!