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Mr. McD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 12:41 PM
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The Sun's New Exotic Neighbour
At a time when astronomers are peering into the most distant Universe, looking at objects as far as 13 billion light-years away, one may think that our close neighbourhood would be very well known. Not so. Astronomers still find new star-like objects in our immediate vicinity. Using Eso's VLT, they just discovered a brown dwarf companion to the red star SCR 1845-6357, the 36th closest star to the Sun.



http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-11-06.html
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liberalpress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 12:46 PM
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1. Hot Damn!...
... a new place spread freedom and democracy. When does the troop ship leave?
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Burried News Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 12:46 PM
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2. Nice website - appreciate it.
May I return the favor. Both the images below will enlarge and go to higher resolution.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060316.html
http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/etacar.html
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 12:57 PM
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3. Uh-oh - it's square - the Borg!

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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 01:02 PM
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4. I am Homer Simpson of Borg
Prepare to be assimi... Ooo! Doughnuts!
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 01:23 PM
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5. It's a brown star . . . they really didn't want to admit that it was in
the neighborhood . . . ruins the resale value, you know . . .

:evilgrin:
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