Hunt over

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:05 am

Any of you have a idea what this is about:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/ma ... isory.html

\"WASHINGTON -- NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.\"

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:33 am

Maybe they found the Vulcan home world.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Wed May 14, 2008 8:22 am

\"Object in our galaxy\" suggests it's not something within our solar system, and the fact that they've been searching for 50 years suggests it's something that's been hypothesized for quite a while, but not yet directly observed.

My guess: dark matter

Herculosis · Post by **Herculosis** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:44 am

Sounds like a black hole to me. IIRC, there was an assumption that we had one in the Milky Way, but I don't think anyone ever pin-pointed where it was.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:49 am

Black holes (or their direct environs) have already been found and photographed.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Wed May 14, 2008 12:50 pm

D'oh, we're all wrong... apparently it's the youngest observed supernova. Cool stuff...

Genghis · Post by **Genghis** » Wed May 14, 2008 2:48 pm

Is it a teapot orbiting the sun between earth and Mars?

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Wed May 14, 2008 3:37 pm

No, it's the moon landing set!!

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:26 pm

Naww, it's definitive evidence of Nibiru.