Strange green blob in space creating new stars

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_space_blob

Interesting.

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

Wait...its giving birth to stars, that are only a few million years old? Well, how do they know that its the one making them? Last i checked, humans werent around a few million years ago, so who would they possibly know this thing is the cause of them???

 

[2-0-Sixx]

The voorwerp is false colored green, a standard color to represent the presence of several luminous emission lines of glowing oxygen.​

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanny's_Voorwerp

I hate when articles leave shit like that out.

Interesting nonetheless.

 

[MrDiamondFDC]

There is no way to prove any new star birth in the universe. Only star death.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

the fuck u talking about nova? lol the topic is green blobs!

 

[NovaFire]

^^^LOL I was wondering where this was at. I meant to post this in the 2012 topic.
Continue.

 

[iaoish]

lol Nova drunk as hel!

 

[Stealth]

Wait...its giving birth to stars, that are only a few million years old? Well, how do they know that its the one making them? Last i checked, humans werent around a few million years ago, so who would they possibly know this thing is the cause of them???

When we look into outer space, we're actually looking back in time. Some of the stars that you see in the sky have already died out, but since it takes so long for their light to travel to earth, we're actually seeing them as they existed millions of years ago. So when we look out in the sky, we can actually see a star being created, as if it were happening today, even if it happened millions of years ago.

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

<----obviously knows squat about space and time

 

[Stealth]

LMAO! I never knew shit about space and time either. I just picked up Astronomy for Dummies two months back. It's a pretty easy read if you don't know anything about space.

 

[MRTHECOSE]

ralphie may on joe rogan podcast breaks down stars and "time travel" and such yall should peep it. he basically says if we went light years away from earth and had a powerful enuff telescope we can see the past as it unfold. pretty mainy stuff.*passes blunt*

 

[Mr. Nice Guy]

LMAO! I never knew shit about space and time either. I just picked up Astronomy for Dummies two months back. It's a pretty easy read if you don't know anything about space.

If you are interested in learning more I would highly recommend "The Fabric of the Cosmos"

It is the best book I have read on space-time, general relativity, special relativity, theoretical physics, string theory, cosmology, etc, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabric_of_the_Cosmos

 

[Stealth]

If you are interested in learning more I would highly recommend "The Fabric of the Cosmos"

It is the best book I have read on space-time, general relativity, special relativity, theoretical physics, string theory, cosmology, etc, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fabric_of_the_Cosmos

Thanks man, I'm always looking for a good read. I'll throw it on Amazon wish list.

 

[LyfeCentenz]

"The blob is mostly hydrogen gas swirling from a close encounter of two galaxies and it glows because it is illuminated by a quasar in one of the galaxies."

so the green blob is essentially a nebula?

 

[KillaKali]

Is this where they'll tell us the "aliens" are coming from?

 

[GTS]

i never watch the sci channel but the other night that hawkins guy had time travel show on and it was talking about how once you hit the speed of light you are going into the future basically

if someone was in a train going close to light speed for so long ( i forget) when they stop it could be 100 years for everyone else but only two weeks for them

 

[MRTHECOSE]

Is this where they'll tell us the "aliens" are coming from?

aliens are actually from URANUS
:beard:





bwahahahahahahaha
old E.T. joke

 

[Mr. Nice Guy]

i never watch the sci channel but the other night that hawkins guy had time travel show on and it was talking about how once you hit the speed of light you are going into the future basically

if someone was in a train going close to light speed for so long ( i forget) when they stop it could be 100 years for everyone else but only two weeks for them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

It's also interesting to note;

Special relativity incorporates the principle that the speed of light is the same for all inertial observers regardless of the state of motion of the source

Meaning that if you are traveling, 300,000 miles an hour and you shine a light in the same direction you are traveling, it will travel away from you at the speed of light - even though you are already traveling in that direction at 300,000 mile an hour.