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Post by bystander » Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:18 pm

Primordial giant: The star that time forgot
New Scientist - 2010 Feb 10
At first, there didn't seem anything earth-shattering about the tiny point of light that pricked the southern Californian sky on a mild night in early April 2007. Only the robotic eyes of the Nearby Supernova Factory, a project designed to spy out distant stellar explosions, spotted it from the Palomar Observatory, high in the hills between Los Angeles and San Diego.
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But this one did not fade away. It got brighter. And brighter. That's when human eyes became alert.
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If the interpretation of what popped up that April night is correct, this was a star that should not have existed, in a place where it should never have been. It was a mind-bogglingly massive star that was a throwback to a universe long since gone. It was a star that time forgot.

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Primordial giant: The star that time forgot

Post by The Code » Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:29 pm

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