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NASA Finds Star With a Tail

Posted by samzenpus on from the streaking-across-the-universe dept.

Andrew Stellman writes "NASA astronomers held a press conference announcing that a new ultraviolet mosaic from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows a speeding star named Mira that's leaving an enormous trail of "seeds" for new solar systems. Mira is traveling faster than a speeding bullet, and has a tail that's 13 light-years long and over 30,000 years old. The website has images and a replay of the teleconference."

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  1. Re:The NASA folks must have been watching bad film by Jester998 · · Score: 1, Troll

    They should tell us how many parsecs it could do the Kessel run in.

    A parsec is a measure of distance... and the Kessel Run is a measure of distance (18 parsecs). So we're measuring how far we can travel in... a given distance?

    I don't even want to think about the equations required to move in 3D^2 space. Must be some kind of wormhole involved in there somewhere.