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Bright Flash in Space Has No Earthly Explanation

Posted January 07, 2009 8:18 AM

From Wired: Top Stories:

Astronomers have no explanation for a mysterious bright flash in space observed by several telescopes. Suggestions range from a collision between a white dwarf star and a black hole to an exotic star made out of hypothetical "mirror matter," but none fit the phenomenon, according to scientists at the American Astronomical Society meeting.

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Re: Bright Flash in Space Has No Earthly Explanation

01/07/2009 12:11 PM

In a related story, shortly before the flash was first detected radio astronomers working at Arecibo reported recording a strange signal from that general direction in space. Upon playback it sounds remarkably like "Say cheese!"
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