NASA's "big" announcement today....

So the big hype concerning NASA's "big" announcement that they had the press on their toes as to what it could be about was released today. Was it Disclosure? Planet X? Something better? Ehhh... No. ... and yes.

They made an anti-climactic announcement probably to draw attention away from the UK's release of UFO docuements at around the same time.

But their announcement was pretty much some scientifically...flawed... "discovery" they have been search for 50 years. It appears they found A certain supernova. I guess. Their annoucement confuses me because I thought we already found those.

But this one interests me more due to location....

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Scientists using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered the Milky Way's most recent supernova, which exploded a mere 140 years ago, a few years after the Civil War.

Previously, the latest known supernova occurred in 1680, right around the time Newton published his Principia. A discovery like this was long sought-after and lends support to astronomers' rough estimate that three supernovae should explode in our galaxy each century. Scientists calculated the rough age of the supernova by tracking the expansion of its remains from 1985 until new observations were made last year. The remains, as you can see in the picture, had expanded 16 percent.

Supernova located approximately 26,000 light years away from here. Shockwave moving 5 percent of the speed of light, the fastest ever observed. This supernova exhibits special kind of X-ray activity, one of only 4 supernovae with these X-rays, which are incredibly high-energy, far beyond anything that even the Large Hadron Collider will create.

Supernovae are incredibly energetic and often visible across the universe, but this one, known as G1.9+0.3, was obscured by the cosmic dust near the center of the galaxy. The scientists said the dust made the explosion a trillion times fainter in optical light than an unobscured explosion.

Green said that this is a very interesting remnant. It's the youngest and smallest and has the highest expansion speed and highest electron energy. "We're confident we will continue to find interesting information about supernova, supernovae remnants."

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soooo anyone catch the odd science in a NASA press release yet?

26,000 light years away.... (pretty close on target with ou planet's cycle around the central sun), and they say the explosion happened about 140 years ago....

hmmmm...

so doesn't it take 1 year for light to travel a light year (BY THEIR STANDARDS) ???

did they just slip and let out a secret for us?