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Backward star ain't from around here

newscientist.com — Here's an apple that landed far from the tree. A dim star just 13 light years from Earth was born in a cluster 17,000 light years away.

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  • adogg06, on 11/11/2009, -4/+18God you people are all idiots.
  • copypastry, on 11/11/2009, -7/+18Damn foreigner star, crossing the galaxy, illuminating OUR sky? how dare it!

    We should erect a giant wall 15 ly in diameter around the sun so we can keep these filthy immigrant stars out.
  • spworm, on 11/11/2009, -1/+10A dyson sphere?
  • IKORKYI, on 11/11/2009, -1/+9DEY TOOK ER JERBS!
  • SpykerSpeed, on 11/11/2009, -1/+9X_X

    *blind*
  • gavroche, on 11/11/2009, -6/+13It came here to take our jobs.
  • RealmDown, on 11/11/2009, -2/+8Old kid on a new block
  • spworm, on 11/11/2009, -1/+7dugg for effort
  • Apokalyps2547, on 11/11/2009, -2/+7nnnnn~It's comin' right for us~nnnnn

    (tough to impersonate Ned in text)
  • Apokalyps2547, on 11/11/2009, -7/+12We don't 'preciate yer type 'round here. <spits in nearby spittoon>
  • bobzmuda, on 11/11/2009, -1/+5Stupid comments in a row?
  • i420, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3About 13 light years from Earth.
  • Paranor01, on 11/11/2009, -0/+3read the article and find out
  • RealmDown, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2alecks: it is 13LY from Earth. It was born 17kLY away.
  • hpi5555, on 11/11/2009, -1/+3DEY DURK EH DURR!
  • Totz83, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2What if the telescopes used to discover this were the wrong way round?

    I have it on good authority that lizard men may have tampered with the equipment

    it's not really 13 light years away... it's in Florida... waiting
  • Parrappa, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1DO DUK ER DUH
  • wilhoitm, on 11/12/2009, -1/+22012!
  • HotLeper, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1umm does the name of this star happen to be Nibiru?
  • askantik, on 11/11/2009, -2/+3"The cluster emits a million times more light than the sun."

    O_O
  • Paranor01, on 11/11/2009, -2/+2don't turn around, it's sneaking up on you
  • spworm, on 11/11/2009, -6/+5OH MY GOD!

    IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!!!
  • alecks, on 11/11/2009, -4/+1I don't get this... 13LY from Earth, but in a cluster that's 17,000LYs away?? What, is it on the edge?
  • Totz83, on 11/11/2009, -5/+2I wonder where it'll be in 2012
  • christoast, on 11/11/2009, -5/+1Block kid old on a new
  • zeroanimated, on 11/11/2009, -5/+1where did you get old from?!

    Block on the New Kid
  • SlothAnus, on 11/11/2009, -9/+3We should make star immigration illegal. No healthcare for the dim skinned.
  • Speedy7, on 11/11/2009, -11/+1New kid on the block...
  • fleischkopf, on 11/11/2009, -14/+2You got a purty little mouth.

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