I never heard this, very interesting.

TAKEN FROM FOX NEWS:

"It's not a supernova. Nor is it a galaxy, or a black hole.

In fact, astronomers have no idea what the mysterious object that in February 2006 suddenly flared up in an otherwise barren patch of sky might be, or even what it's made of.

Researchers working on something called the Supernova Cosmology Project had pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a very distant star cluster, 8.2 billion light-years away or more than halfway across the universe.

But they noticed something else — a point of light where there hadn't been one before.

Over the next three months, the object got brighter and brighter until it was 120 times its initial luminosity.

Then it slowly got dimmer again, at about the same rate, until by the end of the year it was gone.

Astronomers led by U.C. Berkeley astrophysics grad student Kyle Barbary put the light coming from it through a mass spectrometer to see what it was made of — but couldn't get signatures for any known elements."

If only we could know all that could be known.
This universe is awesome! Cool

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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject:

Very interesting!

Personally, I think that no matter how long the human race lives for, we'll never learn everything. There's just too much out there that we DON'T know.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject:

the older I get the more get the sense that Rod Serling was on to something
way ahead of his time