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One of the Milky Way's Fastest Stars Is an Invader From Another Galaxy (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes from a report via Science Magazine: On April 25, the European Space Agency released a data set gathered by the Gaia satellite containing the motions, and much more, of 1.3 billion stars. Astronomers have immediately sifted the data for fast-moving stars. They are prized as forensic tools: When rewound, their trajectories point back to the violent events that launched them. Last week, one team reported the discovery of three white dwarfs -- the dying embers of sunlike stars -- hurtling through the galaxy at thousands of kilometers per second, perhaps flung out from supernovae explosions. Another group reported more than two dozen fast-moving stars, some apparently kicked out by our galaxy's central black hole. And a third has confirmed that a star blazing through the outskirts of the Milky Way actually hails from another galaxy altogether, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The flood of discoveries has sent astronomers racing to their telescopes to check and classify the swift objects, says Harvard University astronomer James Guillochon. The findings have been reported in the journal Science.
And make those Magellens pay for it.
Tardchris's Star! The mythical home system! His mission on Earth finished, he will hop back to his homeworld with his report on Earth!
Go back to your own galaxy.
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I see what you did there.
The question is, which of these stars has the Puppeteer homeworld?
The catalog contains 1 billion stars. If you specifically look for 10 outliers, then maybe you indeed find 10 unusual stars, or maybe you're spotting those stars which had unlucky circumstances that caused processing errors. An error rate of 1/100,000,000 would be incredibly good. Why are these astronomers entirely sure that the error rate of Gaia is exactly zero?
I, for one, welcome our new, high-speed extragalactic invader. . . . .
Not another cloud company, wonder what the latency is...
If my childhood taught me anything Space Invaders, it is that we need emerge from behind a mound of dirt and shoot missiles at it.
Yeah, right, invaders from another galaxy. LOL
No real news left in America. That's why I only read RT news most mornings. Wish I had wasted my time with this boolshiat article. Here's some REAL science for you: ae911truth dot org
What if we're moving fast, and they just discovered the slowest objects in the universe?
Nice to read headlines with "Invader From Another Galaxy" and it's not in the National Enquirer.
Being they are a bit more closer to us, we can use these to see what differences other galaxies may have then ours. While I am not expecting anything exotic like an Anti-Matter star, But some different heavy atoms may be present at a different ratio.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
But seriously, why the fucking dramatic article title? It's not a fucking "invader", it's a fucking star. Stars don't have brains. Stars don't plan and execute invasions.
Maybe we're hurtling at great speed and it's standing still. Or maybe I need to back off so much coffee in the morning - either or
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Make milky way great again
Oh come on, why does this place have no sense of humor. I'm a Trump supporter and think this should be +5 funny.
Since when did having a brain or planning things become prerequisites for classification as being an invader?
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Why invader? Why not a guest or visitor?
Is there some magic spell cast on the humankind recently making everybody angry about everything?
Without knowing anything about where other galaxies are, the odds of one shooting a star directly at us struck me as odd- if galaxies were emitting stars occasionally, shouldn't there be a bunch more lone stars zipping all around?
In any event, apparently the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is both reasonably close as far as galaxies go, is in *orbit* around the milky way, and is about 1% the mass of the milky way.
So maybe we stole the star, eh? "Kidnapped star" would sound just as fun as "Invading star", after all, and gravity is gravity.
The entire Gaia mission is based upon the fact that all it's measurements have an error rate.
The mission planners have scheduled multiple data releases. Each release contains more stars and a lower error rate. Thus each data release 'contains' the stars and data from the prior releases, only with better accuracy and fewer gaps.
http://sci.esa.int/gaia/60186-gaia-s-surprising-discoveries-scrutinising-the-milky-way/
This was widely reported. How the F- did you miss that??
Why there's an energy barrier at the edge of the Milky Way. The Organians put it there to stop those pesky extragalactic invader stars!
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
The Large Magellans are our allies. It's only appropriate that we both gang up on those loser Small Magellans and make them pay instead.
And a third has confirmed that a star blazing through the outskirts of the Milky Way actually hails from another galaxy altogether
I wonder how fast it can do the Kessel Run!
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Lighten up dude. It adds flavor to the title unless you are an idiot to take it literally.
Dang. This could get messy for our galaxy.
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Fiiiiix bayonets!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Hey, you never know! ;)
So...Taylor Swift is an alien?
Invader? I hardly know her! ;)