What IS NASA going to announce next week..?

Unmanned Spaceflight.com > Beyond.... > Telescopic Observations

What IS NASA going to announce next week..?, Feel free to speculate here...

Stu View Member Profile	May 9 2008, 08:20 PM Post #1
The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60	Now THIS is interesting... From UNIVERSE TODAY... This past Wednesday, NASA announced they have scheduled a press conference for next Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to reveal the discovery of an object in our galaxy that astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. Full story here. So, what does everyone think? What have we been looking for for half a century..? Liquid water on Mars? (a very timely announcement before Phoenix lands...) An Earth-sized planet in a habitable zone? An Earth-sized planet beyond Pluto in our own solar system? A funny Eddie Murphy film? Can't wait to find out...!! -------------------- Homepage Astropoetry "Cumbrian Sky" blog "Road to Endeavour" blog

Replies

djellison View Member Profile	May 9 2008, 10:05 PM Post #2
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	Ahh - didn't spot the Xray ref - can't imagine it being exoplanetary if it's that. Doug

Posts in this topic

Stu What IS NASA going to announce next week..? May 9 2008, 08:20 PM

djellison Earth like exo-planet is my vote. May 9 2008, 08:30 PM

remcook did we not already have a couple of those?? I gues... May 9 2008, 08:39 PM

nprev Mmm...Chandra is involved somehow, so I'd have... May 9 2008, 08:39 PM

hendric Perhaps a Supernova within our galaxy? With our l... May 9 2008, 09:52 PM

Pavel Maybe a quark star? May 9 2008, 09:52 PM

ugordan Hardly, 50 years ago quarks weren't even known... May 9 2008, 09:59 PM

nprev QUOTE (ugordan @ May 9 2008, 02:59 PM) Kn... May 10 2008, 11:17 PM

djellison Ahh - didn't spot the Xray ref - can't ima... May 9 2008, 10:05 PM

mps My first thought was also that it could be a super... May 9 2008, 11:11 PM

blobrana QUOTE (mps @ May 10 2008, 03:41 AM) My fi... May 10 2008, 11:30 AM

edstrick Looking at suggestions on the linked page at the t... May 10 2008, 08:25 PM

imipak QUOTE (edstrick @ May 10 2008, 09:25 PM) ... May 10 2008, 10:21 PM

edstrick Note well.... this is a media tele-briefing... i... May 11 2008, 08:05 AM

nprev Well, they gotta produce results of some sort to s... May 11 2008, 08:17 AM

Stu They can't win, can they? If they discover and... May 11 2008, 08:24 AM

nprev Good analysis, Stu; they do indeed walk a fine lin... May 11 2008, 09:10 AM

Greg Hullender Direct observation of a black hole would be my gue... May 11 2008, 05:43 PM

climber QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ May 11 2008, 07:4... May 12 2008, 08:55 AM

nprev Hmm...yeah, I was sort of thinking along that vein... May 11 2008, 06:22 PM

algorimancer How about finding the stellar remnant from the 100... May 12 2008, 07:20 PM

ngunn QUOTE (algorimancer @ May 12 2008, 08:20 ... May 12 2008, 08:19 PM

Phil Stooke Part of that 50 years was in Warp Factor 2 Phil May 12 2008, 08:43 PM

algorimancer Edited. Clearly wasnt' paying attention - I w... May 12 2008, 09:05 PM

climber QUOTE (algorimancer @ May 12 2008, 11:05 ... May 12 2008, 09:10 PM

Stu Here's a wild thought... could they have found... May 13 2008, 09:30 PM

ugordan QUOTE (Stu @ May 13 2008, 11:30 PM) Hmmm.... May 13 2008, 09:33 PM

nprev Yeah. This almost has to be something black-hole r... May 13 2008, 09:40 PM

Stu Hmmm... I understand that, but then again it would... May 13 2008, 09:42 PM

charborob Here is the announcement, I think: "Astronome... May 14 2008, 02:02 AM

Tom Tamlyn You're quite likely correct, since the link no... May 14 2008, 02:45 PM

ustrax That's British Summer Time (=UTC+1Hour). Why d... May 14 2008, 03:27 PM

djellison Helen and I talked about this on the way home. Ou... May 14 2008, 04:57 PM

DEChengst http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/g19/ http://... May 14 2008, 04:59 PM

djellison That was the funniest tele-conf ever A complete ... May 14 2008, 05:42 PM

ynyralmaen I didn't know that the Sunday Sport had a scie... May 14 2008, 05:54 PM

nprev Think the prize goes to Hendric in post#5. That ... May 14 2008, 08:45 PM

Stu So that was it, huh? Wow... very... um... exciting... May 14 2008, 09:11 PM

blobrana RE: >> bit of a red herring Hum, not really... May 15 2008, 12:36 AM

nprev Mmm...okay, I'll buy off on that. The teaser l... May 15 2008, 01:10 AM

Del Palmer QUOTE (nprev @ May 15 2008, 02:10 AM) Mmm... May 15 2008, 02:35 PM

nprev Yeesh. Well, that's the chronic danger of dire... May 16 2008, 04:42 AM

« Next Oldest · Telescopic Observations · Next Newest »

Display Mode: Switch to: Standard · Switch to: Linear+ · Outline

Track this topic · Email this topic · Print this topic · Subscribe to this forum

Lo-Fi Version

Time is now: 17th December 2024 - 07:20 AM