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Something New In The Universe: Mysterious Object Flares Brightly Then Fades Away
Posted by okami
Humans have been star-gazing for thousands of years but the surprises keep coming. Recently, members of the Supernova Cosmology Project, one of the two groups that ten years ago told the world about the existence of "dark energy," announced the observation of a mysterious object that grew increasingly bright for about 100 days then faded away to nothing over the next 100 days. Astronomers have never reported anything like it before and still don't know what it was.
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okami
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former US Marine, retired police. . .nothing of interest. . .
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