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You are not alone regarding a possible connection with the Fermi bubble. The authors of A Distant Echo of Milky Way Central Activity ..., in the second message above, make also this connection.

Ancient eruptions of Eta Carinae: A tale written in proper motions, by Megan M. Kiminki et al. Preprint available at ArXiv.org: http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00362. Submitted 1 Sep 2016.

Adding to neufers posting I recommend the press release 'Gaia's second anniversary marked by successes and challenges' at http://sci.esa.int/gaia/58135-gaia-s-second-anniversary-marked-by-successes-and-challenges/ , published 16 August 2016. Which is the latest posting from the mission centre of Gai...

See also (which is linked in the press release)
A Distant Echo of Milky Way Central Activity closes the Galaxy's Baryon Census - F. Nicastro et al

• arXiv.org > astro-ph > arXiv:1604.08210 > 14 Jul 2016

The shape of the Milky Way disc in this image makes me think of a certain tool from Australia. Take a look at the video and you'll perhaps get what I mean.

Yeah, a lovely trio of galaxies. Where each galaxy has its kind of blue content. How good can it then be I just started listening to Rhapsody in Blue :) , by George Gershwin (at i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFHdRkeEnpM ), on the public Swedish radio. This radio is streaming classic music aro...

As for those who say that something isn't right here, what expertise do you have that gives you the qualifications to make that judgment? Personally, I have to wonder at the size of the black hole at the center of that mass concentration. Ann The second link of today's apod http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov...

Very impressive image of what I might otherwise have called an unremarkable little patch of sky. Indeed, I found it a bit tricky to locate and orient on a star map. North is to the right. The APOD is nestled North of the Hyades (off image to the left) and East of the Pleiades (off image below). The...

APOD Robot wrote very early in the morning on March 10: Tomorrow's picture: East of Java Look, someone spilled their Java in the ocean! Ann Good one, Ann. :clap: Yes, someone is mooning over their spilled Java. And after they spilled it they sang about their loss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6...

As Dong writes in his preprint (1507.03010), is the supernova also known as 2015L.