Website review: ESA Portal - XMM-Newton spots the g...
ewok2k discovered this in Astronomy
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ewok2k discovered 27 months ago- Thanks to data from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, a team of international scientists found a comet-like ball of gas over a thousand million times the mass of the sun hurling through a distant galaxy cluster over 750 kilometres per second.
- mrmagicdreams rated 27 months ago
- 12 June 2006 Thanks to data from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, a team of international scientists found a comet-like ball of gas over a thousand million times the mass of the sun hurling through a distant galaxy cluster over 750 kilometres per second. This colossal 'ball of fire' is by far the largest object of this kind ever identified. The gas ball is about three million light years across, or about five thousand million times the size of our solar system. It appears from our perspective as a circular X-ray glow with a comet-like tail nearly half the size of the moon.
- thefriarandme rated 27 months ago
XMM-Newton spots the greatest of great balls of fire
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Thanks to data from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, a team of international scientists found a comet-like ball of gas over a thousand million times the mass of the sun hurling through a distant galaxy cluster over 750 kilometres per second.
This colossal 'ball of fire' is by far the largest object of this kind ever identified. The gas ball is about three million light years across, or about five thousand million times the size of our solar system. It appears from our perspective as a circular X-ray glow with a comet-like tail nearly half the size of the moon.
"The size and velocity of this gas ball is truly fantastic," said Dr Alexis Finoguenov, adjunct assistant professor of physics in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and an associated scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extra-Terrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany. "This is likely a massive building block being delivered to one of the largest assembly of galaxies we know."
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This thing has the WOW factor. 3 million light years across ... this figure is beyond meaning; it can not be imagined. Five thousand million times the size of our solar system ... again, beyond imagination. Then there's little old us.
- Xtine66 rated 27 months ago
- 12 June 2006 Thanks to data from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, a team of international scientists found a comet-like ball of gas over a thousand million times the mass of the sun hurling through a distant galaxy cluster over 750 kilometres per second. This colossal 'ball of fire' is by far the largest object of this kind ever identified. The gas ball is about three million light years across, or about five thousand million times the size of our solar system. It appears from our perspective as a circular X-ray glow with a comet-like tail nearly half the size of the moon. "The size and velocity of this gas ball is truly fantastic," said Dr Alexis Finoguenov, adjunct assistant professor of physics in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and an associated scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extra-Terrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany. "This is likely a massive building block being delivered to one of the largest assembly of galaxies we know." Wow - is this the Universe's Sperm ? Thanks to Culverin2 for posting this, the source site for the above story pub'd by The Reg in his review. Well done good man.
- culverin2 rated 27 months ago
- puts things in perspective. Ah. Finally proof that God exists *and* he likes the same things I do. If only his aim was a litte better. Wouldn't this be a great way to die? Along with the earth and the galaxy in a great fiery cosmic cataclysm? Or maybe it's the result of a weapon fired by some great ancient warring alien civilization.. against uh- the zerg. or borg. the dark side.. you choose your scifi evil entity. Or maybe it IS an ancient alien civilization who evolved into pure energy! nah. The great thing about astronomy is that the reality, the true explanation (as far as we understand it), is much more incredible. Apparently this is an image of it.. "Thanks to data from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, a team of international scientists found a comet-like ball of gas over a thousand million times the mass of the sun hurling through a distant galaxy cluster over 750 kilometres per second. This colossal 'ball of fire' is by far the largest object of this kind ever identified. The gas ball is about three million light years across, or about five thousand million times the size of our solar system. It appears from our perspective as a circular X-ray glow with a comet-like tail nearly half the size of the moon. "The size and velocity of this gas ball is truly fantastic," said Dr Alexis Finoguenov, adjunct assistant professor of physics in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and an associated scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extra-Terrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany. "This is likely a massive building block being delivered to one of the largest assembly of galaxies we know.""
- Innomen rated 27 months ago
- From the page: "The gas ball is about three million light years across, or about five thousand million times the size of our solar system." Ok nerds, how many hit dice is this fireball?
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