NASA set to announce discovery... any guesses as to what it is?

NASA is finally going to own up to the existence of that face on Mars. :smiley:

They finally really found Yuggoth, which isn’t Pluto at all, but a REAL planet

I heard NASA had hired some fun guys…wonder if there’s a connection…

What? Fun guys, yeah…oh, wait…fungi? Oohhh…

The big asteroid that’s going to end us all?

:cool:

Advanced computer modeling has revealed when Hillary will finally drop out of the race.

I’ts been posted. They didn’t discover anything. A researcher has said that “Earth might have had two smaller moons at one time in the distant past.” wow.

If they really have been searching for “fifty years”, then it’s not a neutron star or black hole (neither concept had been fully formed in 1957). It’s not a nearby gamma-ray burster since we didn’t know about those either. If it’s a “galactic” hunt, then it’s not local to our solar system. X-ray observations would be irrelevent to a SETI or habitable planet search.

I’m stumped.

“blue stragglers”
My work here is done.
Come back and congratulate me later, after the press conference.

That doesn’t seem to correlate very well with the press release. An object in our galaxy they’ve been looking for for 50 years. Discovered using X-ray observations.

Or did you just wooosh my face?

Well, she dropped out of the human race back when she married Bill.

Ah, Hah hah!!

What, there were three moons and now we have just the one? Dammit, I miss everything.

Or white dwarfs. Yeah, congratulate me after they say that.

:smiley:

I’m done with my stupid longshots! :cool:

New “furthest detectable object”?

Wouldn’t a supernova in our galaxy pretty much turn us into toast?

Could it be America’s way?
If it’s a supernova, how far away would it have to be to be detectable but not visible?

All along, I’ve been saying that there’s an alternative earth floating directly across from us, behind the sun. The High Evolutionary himself lives there, for chrissakes!

Now, NASA finally knows what I know.

No. It could, if it produced a gamma-ray burst (we don’t think all supernovae do) and the gamma-ray burst were pointed toward us.

Could it be something having to do with dark matter?

What Anne Neville said. See the Crab Nebula. The supernova that created it was observed by Chinese astronomers in 1054 A.D.

I’d guess they’ve finally located the black hole at the core of the Milky Way. There was an article in Smithsonian a month or so ago about how they searching for it and were on the verge of locating/pinpointing it exactly.

That’s what I was thinking. Seems to fit.