Wonder if it ever gets funded.
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the background is pretty rad ass
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I would like it better if it didn't have the orbital paths drawn around the stars.
Brings a manly tear to my eye
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Cool astronomy site:
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-rare-extreme-helium-star-astronomers.html
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-magnetic-fields-hottest-planets-galaxy.html
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-esa-gravitational-space-mission-nasa.html
"LISA consists of three spacecraft separated by 1.6 million miles (2.5 million kilometers) in a triangular formation that follows Earth in its orbit around the sun. Each spacecraft carries test masses that are shielded in such a way that the only force they respond to is gravity. Lasers measure the distances to test masses in all three spacecraft. Tiny changes in the lengths of each two-spacecraft arm signals the passage of gravitational waves through the formation."
www.astronomy.com
"New Horizons is scheduled to fly by Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 on January 1, 2019, which will set the record for “most distant world ever explored in the history of civilization,” according to Alan Stern, the New Horizons principal investigator."
very long baseline interferometry using radio telescopes at different spots on the planet to simulate a humoungous telescope. Doing this with light is much harder but has been done with scopes close together.
Also related to the LISA mission, LIGO is the earth based version and lead to the need for LISA
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/06/x-ray-blast-produces-molecular-black-hole
"I got my phd so I can sweat my butt off in this itchy suit and my non-physicists friends just ask about hubble!"
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And most people think scientists wear lab coats and work in labs all day....
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It is so rare and refreshing to see a story that combines both astronomy and AI.
"The authors say that one of the stars is speeding at 500 km/s – and will eventually burst out of the Milky Way – but they are more interested in the slower ones and the factors that may have affected their speed."
Not me........500km that's over 300 miles every second!
"were did the sun go?"
"it's gone dude, wanna buy a coat?"
awesome, if there was a habital planet around it, it could possibly survive better than a planet exposed to dangerous novas in the parent galaxy
They think it wandered to close to the big black hole in the center of the galaxy. I think it's like 2+ billion solar masses but I just woke up and am too lazy to check. Anyhow these were slingshoted outta there.
There is one star really close to our suppermassive black hole in an ecentric orbit of 17 years or so (totally going by memory here) and the highly eccentric. The black hole would be 3 arc seconds across in the sky if it was visable
One of the coolest stars in the southern hemisphere:
It literely blew off 20 solar masses in the 1800's
And getting to see light get bent is kinda cool:
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Aliens 2 infiltration team ?
Spoilers: who lives 
wow, what a bummer
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The problem they haven't addressed yet is how to keep people from getting depressed when you lock them in a tin can for a few months.
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