Hundreds of years ago explores sailed across the sea coming in contact with new cultures, new animals, and new ideas. The last couple hundred years there seems to be a sense the frontiers are all gone. Even with space there seems to be a feeling that we understand most everything, we just need to fill in the details.
It is exciting to me to read that astronomers may have found a new object. From Slashdot is Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space:
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Gizmodo is reporting that the Hubble space telescope has found a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. Some are even suggesting that this could be a new class of object. Of course without actually understanding more about it the speculation seems a bit wild.
"The object also appeared out of nowhere. It just wasn't there before. In fact, they don't even know where it is exactly located because it didn't behave like anything they know. Apparently, it can't be closer than 130 light-years but it can be as far as 11 billion light-years away. It's not in any known galaxy either. And they have ruled out a supernova too. It's something that they have never encountered before. In other words: they don't have a single clue about where or what the heck this thing is."
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Pretty cool!
Now if we can just get there some day to check it out!
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