Starship Asterisk*

comments on the site are very interesting.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/communit ... 44844.html

Cloaking device!

It really is a mystery though.

Orin

G'day from the land of ozzzzzzzzz

These links maybe of interest in understanding optical transients.
I'm still learning about these objects.


http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1648
Discovery of an Unusual Optical Transient with the Hubble Space Telescope

http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1394
First Results from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey

http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1076
INTEGRAL sources: from obscured high mass X-ray binaries to supergiant fast X-ray transients


http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1674
Supernova 2008D associated with the Luminous X-ray Transient 080109: An Energetic Explosion of a Massive Helium Star

http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4415
Time-Dependent Models of Accretion Disks Formed from Compact Object Mergers

http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4391
An unusually bright and long outburst of Cygnus X-1 observed with INTEGRAL

Considering we haven't even begun to know about all the objects in space(hyperbole),it probably is a new-found structure.

Perhaps it is ont of those proposed MiniBangs that occurs in a cyclic style universe.
Or maybe a glimpse in the future of our own star through a twisted space style universe.

G'day fro mthe land of ozzzzzz

This Transient observation adds information to our understanding of explosions and jet formations.

The period of the explosion is new data but the effect has been known for some time.

Being so far away its very difficult to say what it is.

Could be a merger of giant stars or neutron stars or the so called black holes producing a continuous jet ejection.