Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 11:09 AM EDT |
More plausible explonation:
The ring is rotating, and is currently aligned along our line-of-sight.
The relative roation could be caused by all sorts of things.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Like what? - Authored by: marcosdumay on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 02:20 PM EDT
- Like what? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 02:51 PM EDT
- Not likely - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 04:21 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 12:09 PM EDT |
My theory: An alien Mining Company got to it...
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 03:41 PM EDT |
to sell newspapers. The Star, Epochtimes, godlikeproductions,
abitmoredetail , and
all the aggregator sites are having fun with this.
Meanwhile genuine seekers
of knowledge will have to
cough up the subscription to
Nature .
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Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 04:54 PM EDT |
Naw, the whole ring just glommed itself together and went
travelin'. Hasn't anybody read Fred Hoyle's "The Black Cloud"?
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 04:26 PM EDT |
Theory #3
I don't like either theory in the article... #1 - disk fell into sun, or #2 -
disk escaped into space, as either makes sense in the timeframe.
Given the very young star, and the relatively short period we have been
observing it, and the fact that it can only be seen in infrared:
The ring is comprised largely of some form of vapor and less dust, and is fairly
recently formed, possibly even only shortly before, or simultaneously with our
discovery of it. It was formed hot and has been cooling, and is now reaching the
point (or is it a line?) where it is not visible in the infrared.
That of course leads to condensation of vapor to matter which ultimately leads
to #2, but over a longer period of time.
Or the alien vacuum cleaner. I like that one.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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