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    Default Nasa spots a runaway Star

    Nasa has seen the trail of a star racing through a cloud of dust and gases..



    The star, Zeta Ophiuchi, is a super hot blue star 20 times the size of our own Sun and the images were captured by an orbiting observatory called WISE which sees the sky in infrared.

    Pretty impresive, isn't it.
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    That's awesome. I just love knowing there's this huge, complex universe out there and we're learning more about it all the time.

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    Man, that's so cool.

    The picture looks very SPACE: THE FINAL FRONTIER.

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    I'd run away too, if I were in Ophiuchus; it's a pretty worthless constellation. "The Snake-Charmer?" One look at this guy and it is immediately obvious that "snake-charmer" is a fairly transparent euphemism.



    Yeah. He's doing something to that snake, alright, and it is not "charming." That snake doesn't look any too happy about it either, and no wonder. They are not taxonomically compatible.

    And what's with the cow there, who has apparently wandered in from some other constellation? "Oh, you naughty cow! You must wait your turn! I am not done with the snake yet!"

    Who wants to play "count the inaccuracies in the popular science article?" I think we can reasonably start with line 1:
    The massive star is racing at 54,000 mph through a cloud of dust and gas.
    I'm not sure this really qualifies as "racing" by astronomical standards. Earth goes faster than that just moving around the Sun.

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    Ah, good ol' Snake-Taint Ophie.
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    like Gandalf in a way Nrblex's avatar
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    Is he flossing his butt with that snake?

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    Quote Originally posted by terrifel View post
    Who wants to play "count the inaccuracies in the popular science article?" I think we can reasonably start with line 1:
    The massive star is racing at 54,000 mph through a cloud of dust and gas.
    I'm not sure this really qualifies as "racing" by astronomical standards. Earth goes faster than that just moving around the Sun.
    It probably wouldn't have been as dramatic had the opening line been, "The massive star is meandering along." When it comes to popular science journalism, drama always wins over accuracy.
    So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.

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