4 mysterious objects spotted in deep space are unlike anything ever seen

LiveScience ^ | 08 July 2020 | Mara Johnson-Groh

[dljordan]

“I’ll send you a picture of both and you can decide for yourself.”

LOL!

[dljordan]

Weren’t those the dying words of Werner Von Braun?

[W.]

Great book!

[W.]

Knew it when you said Larry Niven. Read it in ‘79.

[I-ambush]

Really enjoyed that series of books.

[doc maverick]

For some odd reason, that thought blipped into my brain also.

[hellinahandcart]

My first thought upon reading the title was “they’re coming for us.”

[wally_bert]

It’s one of the usual suspects.

Autons, Cybermen, Daleks, Orgons, or Zygons most likely.

[jerod]

[zaxtres]

What happened to the bygons? They don’t matter anymore.

[null and void]

If it happened 3.8 billion years ago, shouldn't it be an oldtrino by now?

Nope, time stands still for an object moving at the speed of light...

[foldspace]

____ the mind wanders...

[Svartalfiar]

All objects were found away from the Milky Way's galactic plane and are around 1 arcminute across (for comparison, the moon's diameter is 31 arcminutes).

What is the point of this comparison? Arcminutes are a measurement of angle, 1/60th of a degree. Without knowing distance to these objects, the angle measurement is kinda useless, aside from us knowing that they appear to be 1/31st the size of the moon. (Also, the moon isn't always "31 arcminutes" wide, is that at a particular apsides? The average distance?)

[V V Camp Enari 67-68]

That read and sounds like something Professor Irwin would say! 🤭

[Svartalfiar]

I forgot to mention, these objects are HUGE. If they’re visible and outside of the Milky Way, that means they are very far away (Milky Way has a radius of 50-60M light-years), so tens of thousands, if not hundreds/thousands, of light-years away (we’re on the edge, and I don’t know if these sightings are near side or across the galaxy)

For measurements, Diameter = distance x arcmin / 3438.

So these four(!) objects, at 300M light-years away, are the same size as our entire galaxy. But, considering we can already ‘see’ other galaxies, none of which are that close, seems to imply these are so far away that we can’t get a better resolution on what they are. So our size formula means they have to be what, 10MM light-years big? Bigger?

[BipolarBob]

50-billion-neutrinos-pass-through-your-body-every-second

I feel so violated.

[Track9]

Maybe he wrote it. Its from wikipedia. Radio galaxies.

[csvset]

C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate?

[Rebelbase]

Are you an astrophysicist or did you copy and past from wiki?

[reformedliberal]

...release the UFOs...
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They’re gonna need a bigger cast of crisis actors for that one.