At 6pm UK time today, NASA are announcing what they bill as “the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.” I’ll be blogging the press conference live…
Update: I’ve been running late all day. You can find the answer on Phil’s blog here and I’ll post my thoughts later. Sorry.
madge on May 14, 2008
Heard about this from the Bad Astronomy blog. Lots of speculation (most of it from the asteroid-gonna-crash-into-earth-alien-invasion school of dumbness. My money is on the black hiole at the centre of our galaxy. Maybe they found the Celestial Teapot. The suspense is killing me.
madge on May 14, 2008
Ooh…Phil beat you to the announcement! USA 1 UK 0 : ( still looking forward to your blog on the subject : )
Kevin McNulty on May 14, 2008
Looking all over too I discussed Black Hole earlier and Super Nova or…….SETI (later was just a dream) ……..as ever we must wait TTFN
Chris Lintott’s Universe » I could do that. on May 14, 2008
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