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Post by auntym on Sept 29, 2011 17:43:05 GMT -6
NASA DETECTS A MYSTERIOUS BLUE STAR WORLD SCIENTIST PUZZLED
Uploaded by luckymauro on Sep 28, 2011
To some it is a mystery and to others it's a dooms day prohecy that may come true.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2011 15:23:22 GMT -6
Is there a URL from NASA on this? All I can find is a tweet and this video. I'd like to know more from the horses mouth
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Post by skywalker on Oct 3, 2011 20:41:15 GMT -6
A lot of what was posted in that video didn't make sense when I first watched it. For instance, I'm not sure what it had to do with Nostradamus or the Hopi prophecy. There are blue stars all over the galaxy but they are not what I would call "flaming balls of fire." Our sun could be considered a flaming ball of fire. And what makes them think the thing is coming towards us? There are a gazillion directions it could go. I don't know where they got that crazy theory about black holes and two stars merging into one either. I checked with NASA's site and could find no mention of any blue star, or of any star called HEO 437 which is what the UCLA astronomer in the video called it. Afetr digging a little deeper I found this article from NASA. www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/galex-20070815.htmlThis does talk about a star that is hurtrling through space at incredible speed and leaving a long streaking tail behind it but it is a red giant star rather than a blue one. Notice that the photo posted on the NASA sight matches the the photo on the video that is very briefly glimpsed at the beginning. I am betting that the people who made the video got their stars mixed up. When they were talking to the scientist at the planetarium he said that he "assumed" they were talking about HEO 437 when they were actually talking about something different...a giant red star which NASA calls "Mira." More research found this site here which appears to be written in Chinese but has an audio recording in English if you wait for it to start playing. It talks about the blue star but gives conflicting info to what the astronomer gave. www.rrting.com/English/sa60ss/53646/According the the audio recording the star HEO 437 is supposedly from a different galaxy because it is made up of different elements than the ones in this galaxy (although how in the universe they could possibly know that is beyond me). It is not clear from the audio whether or not the blue star is coming towards us or moving away. Either way it is still many, many, many light years away from us.
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