Hubble Mystery Light Puzzles Astronomers

[stevebd1]

Irene Klotz, Discovery News, 12th Jan 09-
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/12/strange-light-hubble.html and from the Hubble site-
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/04/

 

[marcus]

Irene Klotz, Discovery News, 12th Jan 09-
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/12/strange-light-hubble.html and from the Hubble site-
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/04/

Belated thanks for a lot of helpful/interesting posts. this is just one of many.
I had missed this news item and it was a pleasure to read about it this morning.

Here's a technical paper about it:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1648

 

[wolram]

Or it could have been the explosion of some alien ships warp core

 

[stevebd1]

Belated thanks for a lot of helpful/interesting posts. this is just one of many.

Thanks for the positive feedback Marcus.

Or it could have been the explosion of some alien ships warp core

I am reminded slightly of the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks.

 

[stevebd1]

Wikipedia entry-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_06F6

another technical paper-
http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.2562