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Hubble Chronicles Mysterious Outburst

Posted by chrisd on from the formerly-small-star dept.

An eruptive star that brightened to 600,000 times its initial intensity and briefly outshone all others in the Milky Way Galaxy has astronomers amazed and puzzled over what happened...The star, named V838 Monocerotis, has suddenly grown so big that if placed in the center of our solar system it would engulf Jupiter.

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  1. Puberty by wanderb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe it's going through puberty? Explosive growth without getting any brighter =;-]

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  2. Old News... by Big+Sean+O · · Score: 3, Funny

    According to the article, this happened 20,000 years ago...

    *yawn*

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  3. Todo: by slittle · · Score: 4, Funny

    42. Stay the fuck away from "V838 Monocerotis" today.

    Check.

    Well, that's me done for today. Time to troll Slashdot...

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  4. Too cool for science by !splut · · Score: 3, Funny

    "In fact, at present it is one of the coolest stars known," Bond told SPACE.com.

    The astronomer then proceded to slick back his hair and donned a pair of shades, while rythmically snapping the fingers of his free hand.

    "Oh, yeah," added Bond.

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