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"NASA's new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars.The Kepler Telescope, launched in March, discovered the two new heavenly bodies, each circling its own star. Telescope chief scientist Bill Borucki of NASA said the objects are thousands of degrees hotter than the stars they circle. That means they probably aren't planets. They are bigger and hotter than planets in our solar system, including dwarf planets."
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Spa...ory?id=9475048 |
nasa is calling them "hot jupiters".
this is an interesting anomaly because the temperatures are estimated values based on the known characteristics of the star and how fast the planet is orbiting.
I'm really stoked about Kepler and hope that this is just a taste of what's to come!
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And another:
"Observational data from nine pulsars, including the Crab pulsar, suggest these rapidly spinning neutron stars emit the electromagnetic equivalent of a sonic boom, and a model created to understand this phenomenon shows that the source of the emissions could be traveling faster than the speed of light."
http://www.universetoday.com/2010/01...sar-phenomena/ |
the crab pulsar bothers me but it isn't as worrisome as the star that caused the crab nebula.
the progenitor star hasn't finished dying and could explode at any moment.
THAT will be an awesome light show (if we live through it).