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The outflows were detected by astronomers from Australia, the USA,
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million times the energy of an exploding star," said the research team's
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"These outflows contain an extraordinary amount of energy — about a million times the energy of an exploding star."<br />
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But the outflows pose no danger to Earth or the Solar System.<br />
The speed of the outflow is supersonic, about 1000 kilometres a second. "That's fast, even for astronomers," Dr Carretti said.<br />
"They are not coming in our direction, but go up and down from the
Galactic Plane. We are 30,000 light-years away from the Galactic Centre,
in the Plane. They are no danger to us."<br />
From top to bottom the outflows extend 50,000 light-years (five
hundred thousand million million kilometres) out of the Galactic Plane. <br />
That's equal to half the diameter of our Galaxy (which is 100,000 light-years — a million million million kilometres — across).<br />
Seen from Earth, the outflows stretch about two-thirds across the sky from horizon to horizon.<br />
The outflows correspond to a "haze" of microwave emission previously
spotted by the WMAP and Planck space telescopes and regions of gamma-ray
emission detected with NASA's Fermi space telescope in 2010, which were
dubbed the "Fermi Bubbles".<br />
The WMAP, Planck and Fermi observations did not provide enough
evidence to indicate definitively the source of the radiation they
detected, but the new Parkes observations do.<br />
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In the early 2000s many new, relatively large planetary bodies were found beyond what was at the time planet Pluto, and with orbits extending hundreds of AU out past the heliosheath (90-1000 AU). <br />
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The NASA probe New Horizons may explore this area after it performs its planned Pluto flyby in 2015 (Pluto ranges from about 29-49 AU). Some of these large objects past Pluto include, Eris (136199), Haumea (136108), Makemake (136472), and Sedna (90377). Sedna comes as close as 76 AU, but travels out as far as 961 AU at aphelion, and minor planet 87269 goes out past 1060 AU at aphelion. Bodies like these have an impact on how the Solar System is understood, and traverse an area previously only in the domain of interstellar missions or precursors probes.<br />
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After the discoveries, the area is also in the domain of interplanetary probes; some of the discovered bodies may become targets for exploration missions,an example of which is preliminary work on a probe to Haumea (136108) and its moons (at 35-51 AU). Probe mass, power source, and propulsion systems are key technology areas for this type of mission.<br />
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<li style="font-size: 11px; margin-left: 20px; zoom: 1;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; zoom: 1;"><span style="color: white;">The initial press release for the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) in January 1996 states that the image contains "at least 1,500 galaxies." This number was the result of rather quick image processing and analysis, as the observations had only been completed about two weeks prior. Later, improved study revealed the number of objects in the HDF to be closer to 3,000. Why the rush? The American Astronomical Society (AAS) holds their winter meeting &mdash one of the best events at which to publicize a major result &mdash each January. Also, the HDF data was shared immediately with the entire astronomical community, and the AAS meeting was the perfect time to get the word out.</span></div></li>
<li style="font-size: 11px; margin-left: 20px; zoom: 1;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; zoom: 1;"><span style="color: white;">The concept of "out in space equals back in time" is a fundamental part of thinking like an astronomer. It can, however, lead to some confusion in dating events like supernova explosions. Supernova 1987A was observed on Earth in 1987, but, since the explosion took place in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the event really occurred about 170,000 years earlier. One tries to be careful to differentiate between the date it was observed and the date it exploded, but it is easy to slip. Just think, if supernovae occur about once a century, there are about 1700 stellar explosions that have already occurred in the LMC, but which we have yet to see. Going further, most of the major astronomical discoveries of the rest of our lives have already happened, and astronomers are just waiting for the light from those distant objects to reach us. That's thinking in terms of space-time.</span></div></li>
<li style="font-size: 11px; margin-left: 20px; zoom: 1;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; zoom: 1;"><span style="color: white;">Here at STScI, we produced an IMAX short film called <a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/16/" target="_blank">"Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time.</a>"</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; zoom: 1;"><span style="color: white;">The film explores the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) and highlights the changes in galaxy shapes with distance, and therefore time. The film features a journey into the GOODS image with all the galaxies placed at their correct relative distances based upon their measured redshifts. One thing to note is that the distances in the film are compressed by a factor of several hundred to make a better film shot, but otherwise the visuals are all Hubble data. We created a similar journey into the Hubble Ultra Deep Field for the IMAX film "Hubble 3D."</span></div></li>
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