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Title: NASA to Hold Media Teleconference on Bizarre Star
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URL Source: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/200 ... 7102_GALEX_media_advisory.html
Published: Aug 13, 2007
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Post Date: 2007-08-14 05:21:37 by Diana
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NASA to Hold Media Teleconference on Bizarre Star WASHINGTON -- Astronomers are scheduled to announce new findings about a star unlike any seen before at a media teleconference Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 1 p.m. EDT. The findings are from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The briefing participants are: - Christopher Martin, principal investigator of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. - Mark Seibert, astronomer, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, Calif. - Michael Shara, curator at the American Museum of Natural History and professor of astronomy at Columbia University, both in New York Reporters should call the Jet Propulsion Laboratory newsroom at 818-354-5011 for participation information. Audio of the event will be broadcast live at: At the start of the briefing, supporting images and graphics will be posted at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/20070815/ For more information about the mission, visit: Poster Comment: ???
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#1. To: Diana (#0)
A death star? Or maybe a dead star? Elvis comes to mind.
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
a messiah is being fabricated. a star, then magi... P.S. just in case the world is blown up and the net goes out next week: christine: thanks for the most informative resource on the net
bump this
thank you for the compliment, ru.
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever the nature of the star, if it is in an external galaxy (and the mission of GALEX is presumably to observe external galaxies) outside our own Milky Way, there is little cause for concern for us average folk. If they are waiting for the conference to divulge any details, more likely than not it would be because the discovery could possibly challenge any long standing assumptions on the evolution and dynamics of stars. Scientists for all their professed open mindedness don't like to be proven wrong. Sometimes these things can be career-breakers, or in the very least determine which scientist gets future funding and which one doesn't.
star bump
Couldn't they have waited until after pay day?
Bi-I-Bi, Bi-O-Bo, Bi-I-Biddi-Bi Bi-O-Bo, Bi-Bo-Bi-Bo-Bi-Bo-Bi-Bo-Bi Boop-Boo-Waa The Don Juans had a get together, the gathering was large This isn't 'Planet X' again, is it?
#2. To: Diana, christine (#0)
#3. To: _ru, christine, Zipporah, Neil McIver, all (#2)
P.S. just in case the world is blown up and the net goes out next week: christine: thanks for the most informative resource on the net
#4. To: _ru (#2)
christine: thanks for the most informative resource on the net
#5. To: Diana (#0)
#6. To: Diana (#0)
The findings are from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer...
From Two Party System... ...to Two Family System.
#7. To: Diana, Tauzero, Critter, Pinguinite, Dakmar, ghostdottxn, ... (#0)
a media teleconference Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 1 p.m. EDT.
#8. To: robin (#7)
But things got duller than the weather 'till Donna Wood took charge
She went to the piano, and took her D (for Donna)
putting it to music in a major key
#9. To: robin (#7)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
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