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Submitted by CosmicDebris 5/29/2008
- Editor’s Note: This one did hit the front page after being posted on popFAIL.
Since there is no way to collect “physical evidence” for this one, the story details using Crime Scene Investigation style methods to solve a cosmic mystery.
From the story: “The universe is a big place, and weird things can happen,” said Stephanie Wachter of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology.
“I was flipping through archived Spitzer data of the object, and that’s when I noticed it was surrounded by a ring we’d never seen before.”
Original Description:
Piecing together how a mysterious infrared ring got left around a dead star that displays a magnetic field trillions of times more intense than Earth’s.
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