Reply #48: I like the Bush's brain idea, but seriously, [View All]

[haktar]

you can't find anything that doesn't exist.
I can imagine only one galactic thing, searched for over 50 years: A population III star.
(for you astronomically challenged ;-) a population III star is the first star type in the universe, consisting only of hydrogen, helium and traces of lithium (or metallicity 0!) ).
But i admit, this would have huge consequences. A low mass population III star with a lifetime long enough to still exist, shouldn't exist at all, all existing knowledge points to population III stars have to be huge and therefore only have a very short lifetime of only a few million years and shouldn't exist anymore. Also a low mass population III star shouldn't be discovered with Chandra, because if it still exists, it should be in spectral class M (or at least K) and undetectable with Chandra.
So my guess is: in the outer regions of our Milky Way a hydrogen cloud not enriched with heavier material has recently collapsed due to its own gravity to form an O-type population III star.

Ok. i really don't believe it, if this really turns out to be true, i will need major surgery to fix my jaws that simply dropped to the ground in a Will E Coyote style :-) , but it's the only explanation i have right now for Nasa's unusual delay of the announcement of it's findings.