Looks like NASA is going to be releasing a discovery...any idea what it could be?




NASA Press Release

Wait a few days and you will find out.

I never bother posting these announcements myself, it seems a total waste of effort to me to speculate over something that, by waiting a few days, you can learn for certain. I will post the announcement when it is made.

Please post what it is as soon as you find out.

I bet it was the remote control. They probably found it down the back of the couch.

Is it the new Metallica album?

If they've been searching for it for 50 years and just now found it, should be damned interesting, since in the meantime we've found blackholes, quasars, neutron stars, a ton of dwarf galaxies, the biggest stars around, intense gamma ray bursts, etc.

Unless it's merely a confirmation of stuff we've already found, I've no idea.

I bet NASA will be mentioning a found artical on Mars....Just my opinion, and I bet it will be a good fact.....

Or, maybe they have proof of something in the Jupiter system of satellites that might suggest life? Europa?

Neverless, I bet it will be interesting....

Maybe it's a new astroid belt. I cant wait to find out.

Is this a normal NASA thing to do?

It does occur to me that SETI's almost 50 years old. Surely not...

This should be interesting. I will definitely have to watch the nasa channel that day, as well as check out this thread.

If they would have said Solar System it would pertain to us. If they had said Universe it wouldn't have been in this galaxy. It's something in this galaxy that is bright in x-rays and visible in normal light. So who knows?

So long as it doesn't turn out like Deception point we aught to be fine...

Could it be 'space?'

They've found space.

My guess, since they are talking about the galaxy and Chandra, is the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Wouldn't guess anything "local" as they would have said Solar system, or specific area, like they did when they announced the Mars geysers last year. Perhaps even a planet in one of our closest neighbor system, who knows... One thing for sure, it ain't gonna be any type of UFO/ET/artifacts disclosure given NASA's history of hiding things... Added event on my calendar in any case

Cheers

We've known about the black hole at the center of the galaxy from its xray glow and the motions of stars near it for many years now. What I'm betting on is evidence for intermediate mass black holes of merely thousands of stellar masses. There's always been great evidence for stellar mass holes up to ten solar masses and the supermassive holes of millions or more, but never any incotrovertible evidence for anything in between. Perhaps that's changed.

Wonder what it could be...

Read what I said earlier, this is a galactic discovery, almost certainly not a solar system one.

This is why I so hate threads like this. People read the first post and think "oh it must be something big". Then then go off on a total flight of fantasy spouting the first nonsense that comes into their head. The fact is that NASA makes announcements like this on a routine, almost weekly basis. In almost all cases it is something that will be extremely mundane except to those with a real interest in astronomy.

Gee, talk about taking the wind outta my sails !!!
It's gotta be Nibiru!!! We're all gonna die!!

Dark matter? Well I guess it probably isn't that because dark matter isn't visible in any light.

OMG I KNOW WHAT IT IS

...only some pure gamers would understand the conference...


...ladies and gentlemen....


...we have found Master Chief's ship from the end of Halo 3

Must not be that interesting if we've only been looking for it for about 50 years.

Ah. Thanks for the reality check, Waspie.

Agree with Tiggs ones again thanks .Was getting a bit mad on my seat here .

A tad harsh and grumpy, if you don't mind me saying......

Guessing games can be fun! Astonomy, surely has room for some fun...on a forum.

And if it's something mundane....that's ok. It'll be educational, anyway...

I would have thought that 'ordinary people' taking an interest in this kind of thing would be
welcomed by serious astonomers?

No, truthful.

Science is not about guessing. It is about knowing.

EtuMalku this must be a joke right .Funny by the way.

But doesn't science have to START with a guess/idea and then use methods to prove or disprove, 'the guess'?

No, science starts with observation and then a hypothesis that fits the facts. This thread is full of wild guesses. Hardly anyone who has posted here has even bothered to find out what type of telescope Chandra is. Instead they are guessing wildly.

It is frustrating that there are dozens of threads about amazing discoveries in this section, most of which have no comment or intelligent discussion attached to them. When it comes to pure speculation about something people only have to wait a few days for we get the most active thread in the space news section.

It is for this reason that I do not post the sort of announcements that the O.P. As I said NASA make many of them a year, as do ESA and many other astronomical organisations. This section should be about news NOT guessing games.

Now I see where your annoyance is coming from....

Perhaps the 'problem' is that to involve the 'student'....the method of imparting the gems of
information has to be done in a way that engages them.....I'm not being sarcastic here....
It must be frustrating to be sharing/presenting information that seems to be ignored.

It's not that, it is the fact that people engage in wild guessing games without even taking the time to find out the basics. I just don't think that is a very intelligent way to go through life.

Hello Waspie.

Found the name of the X-ray observatory in one of your posts.Been searching for that name a while.Here is to some photos to share in this thread taken from the Chandra space telescope.

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Correct me if I am wrong Waspie.Nasa claims to have found the oldest known clumps (last image above) of the first clusters on the outskirts of galaxies that may harvest the first stars to form in galaxies.

When I saw this photo nearly I fell of my seat out of interest .I love astronomy.Cant get enough of the data that astronomers collect from the universe .

They have. I am a little behind in posting some of the news and that is an announcement I still have to post.


Just to make it clear for those who don't know, these are not photos in the conventional sense. They are images made from x-ray measurements. These colours are not real. Depending on how the images were made the colours will either represent different wavelengths of x-ray (so similar to colours in a normal photograph) or they will represent different intensities of x-ray (image taken in one wavelength but different colours representing different brightnesses).

My answer to the OP would be, "Nope, no idea."

I think Waspie's statement above fills in the rest.
It is a discovery associated with Chandra X-ray observations, pertaining to something in galactic space. It will have nothing to do with the solar system, asteroids, comets, or anything like that. It won't be "news" either, save for those with an intense interest in astronomy.

Don't know what it is, and neither does anyone else, save those who've been involved in the project. We'll all find out in a couple days, when NASA makes the routine announcement of the discovery...something they do on a consistent basis.

Further, it will be in Astronomy magazine's next issue, for sure...

So what was it!?

You are 14½ hours early asking that.

I agree, NASA does not make announcements like this weekly.

NASA makes announcements on new discoveries many times a year, I know because I post them here. Saying "almost weekly" (my exact words) may be a slight exaggeration but not much.

Most of these announcements simply go unnoticed outside of the astronomical community (which is my point). Sometimes they attract a bit of attention but not often. The only reason that this one is being noticed on this site is because someone has started a "what will they announce" thread.

To make my point Moon Demon how much have you contributed to any other thread in this section? How many times have you made a comment on one of these new discoveries? I find it amazing that a totally pointless thread like this draws people out of the woodwork to make comments that do not get involved normally.

Listen, it isn't up to you to decide who can post on what threads and when. I read daily and post when I find a subject I post. If you used your search function you would know that.

"I find it amazing that a totally pointless thread like this draws people out of the woodwork to make comments that do not get involved normally."
Well cry me a river , poor Waspie. I cannot believe a moderator would have the audacity to say something like that. Full of ourselves are we?

No it isn't which is why, despite the fact that I am forum leader of this section, I have neither closed nor deleted this totally pointless thread.


Like I said, what have you contributed? A personal attack and nothing else.

No waspie,
pointing out that you are wrong about something is not a personal attack,
you threw the first stone.
You can't seem to tolerate being told you are wrong about something.
this thread isn't pointless to some, some find it interesting to debate what it could be

May I point ouy that your first post in this thread was simply to agree with someone that called me harsh and grumpy, something you felt you had to quote. How is that an intelligent and articulate contribution to the Space News section?


The fact is it has generated no useful debate just a series of wild guesses, mostly by people that didn't even bother to read the link in the original post. Again how does that make this thread a worthwhile contribution to the Space News section? In a few hours the announcement will be made, I will post it (either in a new thread or in an existing one if relevent). I will provide a link in this thread. This thread will then die and there will be less comments made about the actual discovery than where made in this thread. That is the reality of the situation.

My big mistake was leaving this thread in this section. I should have moved it to the Astronomy and Space section.

Waspie, I don't engage in negative arguing, sorry to ruin your day. I didn't even read your last post.

Ok so do we know what the announcement is?
I checked online and see nothing.

All this fighting over a this thread. Both of you grow up.

What was Announced? It is 2:11 pm at Coca Beach.

It is the discovery of youngest supernova remnant in our galaxy, from a supernova that went un-noticed 140 years ago. I will post the full news story shortly, but please give me a little time, I've just got in from work.

I have now posted the news releases on this discovery. They can be found, starting HERE, in the Supernovae, News and images of supenovae and their remnants thread.