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- inactive, on 12/07/2007, -1/+56"astronomers will have a radically altered view of the ultracool dwarfs" - lol
- itail, on 12/07/2007, -0/+21Amazing. Reminds me of when I first heard about Magnetars and Soft Gamma Repeaters. There is something shocking about an unstable interstellar object that in a 1/10th of a second burst delivers more energy than our sun does in 100,000 years, and has large measurable effect on our earth from 50,000 light years away...
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/bright_flash ... - dyreschlock, on 12/07/2007, -0/+18we can see what it looked like 35 years ago.
- p0ss, on 12/07/2007, -1/+11"The star’s radio emission is frequently interrupted with spectacular fireworks displays of minute-long flares coming from the catastrophic collisions and merging of the magnetic fields in star’s corona."
If I were a super advanced race, this would be my TV. - FloppyLlamaDigg, on 12/07/2007, -0/+10Alien power plant.
- diggonaut, on 12/07/2007, -2/+12is that an artist's impression on the picture or something based on the real data?
- had3l, on 12/07/2007, -1/+10Only 35 light years away? That's awfully close, I wonder how come we didn't know about it earlier.
- oldhick, on 12/07/2007, -0/+8Its artists drawing... http://www.gemini.edu/magneticpersonality
- foopirata, on 12/07/2007, -0/+7More like your screen-saver....super advanced races wouldn't watch TV :)
- ncapone, on 12/07/2007, -2/+8That's ultracool!
- mahdaeng, on 12/07/2007, -0/+6Dugg for use of the term, "ultracool dwarfs".
- Bukowsky, on 12/07/2007, -1/+6My guess is it's just an illustration.... but I would like to know!
- sgtbutterscotch, on 12/07/2007, -0/+5So, the only way to stop trolls is to castrate them?
- gommle, on 12/07/2007, -1/+6Just past 7-Eleven. It's not that far away. It's a 66044160000000 year long walk if you move at a speed of 5km/t. (8mph)
- strictnein, on 12/07/2007, -0/+4Closest stars to Earth:
http://www.essex1.com/people/speer/stars.html
The Proxima/Alpha Centauri group is 4.2 - 4.3 light years away. - Scynet, on 12/07/2007, -0/+4No, if by astrology you mean somesort of magical divination.
Yes, if by astrology you mean the study of stellar phenomena and their effects on Earth, but that's what we call astronomy now anyway.
The definition is rather vague nowadays. - insertAliasHere, on 12/07/2007, -0/+4Proxima Centari: 4.2 lightyears from our sun.
- mahdaeng, on 12/07/2007, -0/+3Well, you obviously haven't talked to everybody, then.
- gn0stik, on 12/07/2007, -0/+3"The star lies about 35 light-years away in the constellation Boötes"
Damn those ultracool dwarves, They get all the Bootes. - strictnein, on 12/07/2007, -1/+4Oh my god I hope you're just trolling.
edit: if not, please do us all a favor and castrate yourself - Scynet, on 12/07/2007, -0/+3While it's colored by hand, sometimes even drawn like in this case, I'd imagine the artists working for Nasa knew the basic principles of how the objects look like. Sure, there's some extra "bling" added for the looks though.
- RealmDown, on 12/07/2007, -0/+3Real or illustrated, Bootes have always held a magnetic attraction for me. :-D
- johoshua, on 12/07/2007, -1/+3I hypothisize that it has a micro-blackhole superpartner it a highly eccentric orbit equal to the mass of the "utlracool dwarf", similar to the theory of our system has a superpartner in the oort cloud that orbits every 26 million years.
- glasnostic, on 12/07/2007, -2/+4not to bring up religion, but this did remind me of something i thought about a while back when discussing the beliefs of those who think the earth is in the 10,000 year old range.
if the earth is 10,000 years old, then all the star light we see, (or most of it) was created to look like its thousands of light years away. basically, the photos were created to look like a star that does not exist. it doesn't exist, because many of the star lights we see are of stars that have long since died.
think about it..
we have deep filed images of galaxies filled with millions of stars and every single one of those stars (according to some religious people) have never existed for in order for them to have existed, they would have had to have existed millions of years before the creation of the universe.
just something to think about - Arcesius, on 12/07/2007, -3/+5Amen to that. Does that mean there might be something to astrology, though?
- fant0m, on 12/07/2007, -1/+3I doubt it's actually "bizarre." Something like that is probably normal in space - it just lets us know just how small we really are. Aliens (if there are any) will probably laugh at us when (if) they find out that we made a "discovery." For all we know, that thing is probably as normal an occurrence as McDonald's.
Still, awesome find! I love space stuff because regardless of how "cool" you think you are, there's still a bunch of ***** out there cooler! - OneLess, on 12/07/2007, -0/+2Yeah, we definitely don't have that sort of resolution on even the most powerful telescopes. Shows you how huge the universe is :)
- blogrepublic, on 12/07/2007, -0/+2There's a whole lot out there we don't know about yet.
- Tangeuray, on 12/07/2007, -0/+2Proxima Centari actually closer...
- benverlander, on 12/07/2007, -1/+3This reminds me of that star in Solaris.
- terminal157, on 12/07/2007, -0/+2He's just quoting the figure given in the article, which is the same figure you quoted.
- mahdaeng, on 12/07/2007, -1/+3Actually, most people who claim the 6,000-year-old Earth thing are referring to the history of mankind on Earth, not the history of the stars, galaxies, etc., or even of the Earth itself.
- FiendishMuffin, on 12/07/2007, -1/+2teehee... Booties.
- mookieXL, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1Yes.
- aznedy, on 12/07/2007, -2/+3Hey, It's Phaaze.
- moocow1452, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1But seriously, I thought that our closest Star was Alpha Centauri.(91 c/yr)
If this magna-star is 3 times as close, how come we haven't heard of it until now? - Chirp08, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1Kinda gives hope for finding some other means of traveling those vast distances. haha a rocket that runs on unstable magnetic stars, that would be the day..
- shig, on 12/09/2007, -0/+1Electricity is one thousand billion, billion, billion, billion times greater than the force of gravity.
- glasnostic, on 12/07/2007, -3/+4not true.. everybody i have talked to about this 6,000 year old earth thing think the earth and heavens were created as the bible describes.. in 7 days.. man was created right after that..
- TheZorch, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1It could be a Magnaton, a star that from time to time erupts with violent magnetic explosions which don't destroy the star but can cause serious damage to anything that might within its range.
- mstachiw, on 12/07/2007, -1/+2ITS A HUNGRY LUMA!!! Somebody please feed it starbits soon or Rosalina will cry.
- inactive, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1Yep.
- albeec13, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1LCDs aren't affected by magnetic fields. If you had a giant CRT though...
- glasnostic, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1were they even reading the bible? its pretty obvious in Genesis what order things came in.. earth.. .then stars
- pw378, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1Wow! Figured that out all by yourself?
- thecarpe, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1there is hope yet for those tiny planets and stars who have been cast down upon because they seem to have nonconforming attributes to understood celestial...Pluto, Tom Cruise...
- pw378, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1Obviously you never talked to Catholic Popes either... They declared that the Catholic church accepted and agreed with the big-bang theory before the rest of the scientific community did. Eventually the scientific community came around though... :)
- wheresjim, on 12/07/2007, -1/+2Well, let's just say that the people I know of that ilk are not the type to let something like scientific observation get in the way of their beliefs, no matter how much it pwns them.
- KyleGoetz, on 12/07/2007, -1/+2I feel like such an idiot. It took me half the article to realize when they kept saying "cool" and "ultracool," that they meant "low-temperature" and that they weren't just crazy fans of M-type dwarf stars.
- sayuki288, on 12/08/2007, -0/+0seems to me that the star is keeping itself alive
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