Wasn’t 1054 in the Chinese calender called the year of the Toast?
Tris
My friend is like a black hole at a Chinese buffet. He eats all the crab nebula legs they can put out.
A second WOW! signal.
I heard the aliens like playing Troll Shamans.
“Frost Shock!”
The furthest observable object has begun to reverse direction?
I was hoping that intelligent life had been detected on the third planet in our solar system, but after the week I have been having, I know there is no chance of that.
Planet X has been found. In a bar on the west side of Chicago.
That’s my thought too. The missing mass question goes back over 50 years, and we already have local examples of X-ray Binaries, Pulsars, Supernovae, X-ray Transients, Black holes (both stellar and big). Of course, no one was looking for most of those 50 years ago anyway, so they can’t be what NASA’s going to announce.
Dark matter seems a likely candidate.
It was the Year of the Golden Dragon.
We didnt realise that Golden meant “glowing in the dark”…
My money’s on it being something to do with the central black hole. Browsing through the Chandra short term observing schedules and looking through the archive, there seems to be at least one oddly named observation in the past week with indications that the target is a black hole. Though it could be a low mass star or something like that.
I doubt its going to be a habitable planet – as far as I’m aware (and as an X-ray astronomer who knows very little about extra-solar planets), habitable planets don’t have bright X-ray albedos.
Other than that, I’ve got nothing.
How long have we been looking for Brown Dwarves?
Tris
A black hole in the galactic center? They’ve been looking for that for a while. It’d fit the X-Ray angle as well.
ETA: I’m stumped what they’ve been looking for for 50 years in our galaxy.
They’re pretty sure they’ve found it already. The extremely high-velocity, short-period orbits of the centralmost stars around a common point with no visible object centered on it pretty well clinches it.
A stable source of funding?
I dunno, ever since we looked at Jupiter?
jayjay, care for a handbasket?
Oh, that’s all right. I’ve already got one. Built sturdy and everything. Should take even a bad landing…
For the missing sock theorist , here is the military sock weapon story in my favorite series Galactic Customs. Paint Your Weasel
I’m guessing they will talk about the smallest black hole ever found.
It’s the 50-years part that has me stumped. Most of the things mentioned weren’t even known about 50 years ago.
All I can think of is Sputnik.
(PS- Sciencedaily.com is a neat place to peruse, for those interested in all sorts of sciencey stuff.)