It beats the heck out of me why news papers have to resort to medieval English to explain some natural event that could benefit by real-world explanations rather than wizard witchcraft.
Hubble spies stellar ‘ghost’ wandering the Milky Way galaxy is such a case.
Sigh.
Moving right along here ...
"Sahu’s team thinks the object may be traveling as quickly as 99,419 miles per hour (160,000 kilometers per hour), which is quicker than most stars in that part of the galaxy, ..." and while I think that "faster" is the better word than "quicker" and am glad that for once I wasn't treated to 159,070.4 kilometres per hour (100,000 miles per hour would have satisfied me, not that any human has a concept of what it is to travel at that speed), I am dismayed that Albert's earth-shaking (dare I say universe-shaking, since humanity is, after all, at the centre of the known universe?) brilliant little paper is ignored.
I am appalled that dumbing-it-down-for-the-masses has reached the point where the whole point of relativity is lost in an article like this. An article about the cutting-edge of astronomical science.
I mean, 99,419 miles per hour relative to what?
Speaking of windows on (or to) The Galaxy, Those windows were heavy; all eight of them. I have waited three years for this day.
Oh, alright then: a rate of 0.003137 Km/hr, because the truck arrived via Newman's Cove.
Exhaustingly, and exhaustedly yours, Chris.
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Re: Hubble spies stellar ‘ghost’ wandering the Milky Way galaxy
One has to ask. Do you suppose that it is goblin up stars?
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Re: Hubble spies stellar ‘ghost’ wandering the Milky Way galaxy
Only if they are dwarves, or taste like browniers, or have a pixilated image.
Or were you trolling?
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Re: Hubble spies stellar ‘ghost’ wandering the Milky Way galaxy
Well Bob, while the original post dwelt on a BBC report, the ABC was able to provide you a reference for "goblin". Second text paragraph in Fastest-growing black hole of past 9 billion years discovered in bright constellation of Centaurus
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Re: Hubble spies stellar ‘ghost’ wandering the Milky Way galaxy
Even the NASA web site can't help using the word phantom!
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/20 ... way-galaxy
But at least they quote a speed of 100,000 mph!
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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/20 ... way-galaxy
But at least they quote a speed of 100,000 mph!
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Re: Hubble spies stellar ‘ghost’ wandering the Milky Way galaxy
So the US is roughly half a mile per hour faster then the rest of us.
How is a lay-person supposed to interpret that? Will BobH and his ilk get gobbled up before Leif and his elk get wolfed down? Or is the US so far behind technologically that they are making a half-serious effort to catch up? Given that the US has used a bigger word ("phantom") than the original word "ghost" leads me to believe that they have lawyered-up.
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