Runaway star races through space
The star, known as zeta Ophiuchi, is some twenty times the mass of our own Sun, but astronomers think it must have once orbited around an even heftier star that exploded in a dramatic supernova event at the end of its life. The explosion kicked zeta Ophiuchi onto its new path at a breakneck speed of 24 kilometres per second (approximately 87,000 kilometres per hour).
As it races through space, its powerful winds push interstellar gas and dust out of its way to create an arc of compressed material in front of it, called a bow shock. This shock wave is so compressed that it glows in infrared light, which WISE is able to detect. Radiation streaming out of the star is heating the dust in the immediate vicinity, giving it a red glow, while further away the clouds of dust and gas remain undisturbed. In visible light only the star can be seen.
Zeta Ophiuchi is burning through its lifespan too – it is already halfway through its short eight million year life. In comparison, our Sun is only halfway through its 10 billion year life expectancy. While the Sun will eventually swell into a red giant before shrinking into a white dwarf, zeta Ophiuchi will go out with a bang, exploding in a supernova just like its long-lost companion.
http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n1101/26zetaOph/
NASA News Audio Live Streaming
Wednesday, Jan. 26, 1 p.m. EST
Media Teleconference on Hubble Discovery
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 26. Astronomers have pushed the Hubble Space Telescope to its limits and have seen further back in time than ever before. The related discussion will focus on new research findings to be published in the journal Nature.
The teleconference panelists are:
-- Rychard Bouwens, Hubble co-investigator, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Leiden University, The Netherlands
-- Garth Illingworth, Hubble principal investigator, University of California, Santa Cruz
-- Eric Smith, Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington
Question: As far as which way that runaway star is heading...Where do you see it is moving away from us???
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Look at the "bow shock;" if it were headed at us the bow shock would be between us and the star and appear to surround the star equally on both sides. More importantly, Zeta Ophiuchi's radial velocity is -15km/sec while its proper motion is .02" per year. At a distance of 520 light years, that means its proper motion vector equates to 5.04206228 × 10-5 ly per year or 477,005,734 kilometers per year, meaning 15.1 km per second. To sum up, its radial velocity in our direction is roughly equal to its linear velocity from our perspective, thus its vector of motion is aimed 45 degrees away from our solar system.
January 25, 2011
Michael E. Salla, Ph.D.
At five thousand dollars a ticket, some business leaders got more than they bargained for when they attended the first day of the Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF) being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. They were told flying saucers are real, and they better start thinking about the business implications of extraterrestrial life and technologies. Convened each year by the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority, the GCF brings together business and political leaders to discuss ways of promoting business.
Someone's personal theory.
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Nibiru (wormwood), Planet X, and Nemesis are three different entities.
Nibiru, well we know what that is. A stellar body that swings in and swoops around the Sun sending Rock in Earth's direction every several thousand years. Yes this should be considered a threat especially for the ill prepared. I believe that as it approaches, gets near, or leaves, it will reverse Earth physical poles.
Nemesis is our Sun's companion. I don't believe that is much a threat but is does effect the Sun at times which can directly effect Earth.
Planet X I believe is the governments code name for the pole reversal. A sphere has three axis. X, Y, and Z. To revers the X axis of a sphere is to reverse the physical poles of that sphere. Yes this should be considered a threat for the ill prepared.
Back in 1983 when a astronomer noticed something was effecting the orbit of Uranus and Neptune and that object must be another undiscovered planet, NASA began looking. They quickly sent satellites into space while building several Earth based telescopes. Shortly after they discovered two bodies in space. Nemesis and Nibiru. Many being aware of scripture automatically assumed that seeing wormwood is real, so could the pole reversal be. Also, scientists who study pole reversals say that we are not only due, but past due.
With Washington having Nemeisis, Nibiru and PX all plopped on their plates at the same time, insiders seeking knowledge within government had to sift through all the code names mixing them up. This is how they were thought to mean the same thing when actually they are not.
These events are all survivable with moderate preparations. Details can be found in Revelations, the Internet, and science articles.
