Nasa announcement in 10 minutes [modified] (140 yr old supernova remains)

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"COMING UP: 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, May 14 NASA has scheduled a media teleconference to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years." http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html[^] I bet 10 bucks it's a black hole. -=-=-=-==- Remains of a supernova that was first discovered in the 1980's and re-imaged with Chandra, scientists discovered it had expanded since the '80s which allowed them to calculate the supernova had taken place only 140 years ago making it the youngest supernova ever studied.

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