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Star Flung From Milky Way at High Speed
fenimor writes "Using the MMT Observatory in Tucson, astronomers have discovered a star three times bigger than the sun, leaving our galaxy at a speed of over 1.5 million miles per hour (670 kilometers per second). The first-of-its-kind finding not only confirms an earlier theory about the existence of such speeding stars, but also reinforces the notion that the Milky Way spins around a black hole."
It's a glider!
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make install -not war
"We're tempted to call it the outcast star because it was forcefully tossed from its home."
Instead they are going to call it a galaxy challenged star.
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
galactic pin ball here we come!!
Just like my screen saver predicted.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Ok, now how do we apply this knowledge to do the same to Microsoft/Paris Hilton/Terrel Owens/Celine Dion.... ?
Starlight, star bright, first-of-its-kind star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, get laid tonight.
Do your best, hope for the best, suspect the worst.
I think he might have meant if we were to be run over by a random sun moving at that speed. Could be wrong, though.
Thinking about it makes me think about casting a fireball spell on black and white and flinging it at some poor villiagers.
:D
i sure wouldnt want to be in the way of THAT fireball
Why does that star hate America?
Please of please let it be Ashlee Simpson!
.\.\att Clare
Goddamned Puppeteers. Before you know it, they'll be fleeing with all the good stars.
I guess someone finally found a really long plank and a place to stand.
I genuflect in the general direction of your geekitude....
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
Scientists from the other side of the galaxy have found evidence of a small planetary system, made of one star of about 1/3 of normal size and its 9 planets moving falling into a black hole at incredible speed.
Can a star be /.'d? If so, did we just change the orbit of 5 other planets?
...just thinking about the kinetic energy that thing must be carrying with it makes my head spin.
All we need now is a super-massive baseball mitt on the end of a hyper-massive wooden pole hooked up to a mega-massive generator spindle.
The gift of death metal does not smile on the good looking.
"Fore!"
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
No wonder they couldn't find the star in the Jedi archives
Philip
Signatures are broken
The speed of light (c) is 300 000 km/s. 670/300000 = 0.0022. It's going at 0.0022c.
Don't worry, you're the not the first person to post disinformation on this site and get modded up as informative. Also, you should have worked with the metric values instead of messing around with the imperial values. Ye olde english system is great for measuring stuff in your trousers, but not as great for astrophysics.
I thought it was well established that at the center of the galaxy there is a planet, that God is on that planet, and that (as it is becoming abundantly clear), he needs a fucking starship!
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
From the SDSS J090745.0+24507 Daily News:
Cheers
-b
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
> Is it possible for a star flung like this to keep any planets it had, or would they most likely get sucked off by the black hole?
Maybe, but it's *definitely* possible for a star flung out of Planet Hollywood to get sucked off by a black ho.
Do you realize how fast we're going...?
[cue music]
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine thousand miles an hour.
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
'Round the sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at fourteen thousand miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
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Even more if you stand up and hold out your arms! (But they probably have a sign up to keep your arms and legs inside your reference frame at all times.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Come on! You gotta do the whole thing!
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Education is the silver bullet.
>> ...although you might not get great Google results with "Nivel" -- it's actually Larry Niven.
:)
Google: "Did you mean: harry navel?"
No, Google, I didn't.
Must have found about Bush's re-election.
I think the correct verb is "slingshat".
Bruce
Yes, but that would make you a jerk, so the poster is correct!
Seriously though, what kills you is the difference in acceleration of the top and bottom - which is what the previous person said.
while (sig==sig) sig=!sig;
Maybe it's just some alien race out there who wants to illustrate that they too, emjoy blowing things up with oversized guns.
Either that, or the gods are playing Katamari Damacy again.
We can believe in you for 3 minutes, but beyond that, even the King of All Cosmos can't be expected to wait.
'cause black holes don't have a size limit.
Do you mean that they don't have a mass limit? Because they definitely have a size limit. They're 0-dimensional.
Or are you thinking of the Schwarzschild radius?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
A little know intergalatic terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for the plasma burst observed. Secretary of State Rice could not be reached for comment. However, President Bush is ramping up space exploration with the intention of invading the terrorists home system.
Someone went and taunted the happy fun ball.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
G'nok: "Dammit, G'nariak -- I told you to calibrate the Star Destructor targeting computers yesterday!"
G'nariak: "Sorry, sir. I had to take the wife to her obstetrician yesterday during lunch; I was in a rush; it won't happen again."
G'nok: "Damned right it won't. The Earthlings SAW the Star Destructor test! They were supposed to EXPERIENCE the test!"
G'nariak: "Again, sorry sir -- I'll make it up to you."
G'nok: "You damn well will -- we have to explain to G'tariak why his vacation home at the edge of the galaxy isn't there anymore. Dumbass!"
IronChefMorimoto
The bad news is it's heading straight for us.
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.