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Zeta Ophiuchi's cousin?

Hi all,

I was incredibly impressed with Geochron's image of Zeta Ophiuchi (here: https://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/...d.php?t=211435) and even more impressed when I stumbled across the following NASA article.

NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour

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A few years ago, longtime Backyard Worlds citizen scientists Martin Kabatnik, Thomas P. Bickle, and Dan Caselden spotted a faint, fast-moving object called CWISE J124909.08+362116.0, marching across their screens in the WISE images. Follow-up observations with several ground-based telescopes helped scientists confirm the discovery and characterize the object. These citizen scientists are now co-authors on the team’s study about this discovery published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (a pre-print version is available here).
You can read the entire article here: https://science.nasa.gov/get-involve...iles-per-hour/

Now, who's going to be the first one here to try and image it?

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V.
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Old 27-08-2024, 06:44 PM
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I don't know why there is any mystery around this.

It's obviously a Vogon Constructor Fleet ship,
clearly running late for the next hyperspace interchange project.
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