One for amateur astronomers I know are in the crowd.

I agree with the editorial comments at the end of the article. Not that I think this is anything more ominous than a celestial event that we just recently gained the ability to see, but why indeed did it take over two years for NASA to tell us about it?

Hubble Views Unexplained Object


Edited to Add NASA's official release.
NASA's press release.

Goodbye Alderaan, we hardly knew you.

It's a warp drive signature.

Zimm overloaded his 500 crystal changer.

Mainly because NASA has a ton of data to analyze would be my bet. They may not have actually looked at it seriously for a good long time. Also, for proper scientific stuff, it's much better to do a little analysis, a little peer review, etc, before releasing to the media. It's kind of bad form (and bad science) to just go screaming to the media with raw data.

Which created a wormhole to a distant part of the galaxy, in the process also moving a black hole that then swallowed up a star.

Such as the ever-popular:
Urea Formaldehyde Foam Insulation
Asbestos
Mercury in glass thermometer
Compact Fluorescent Lamps

Bren R.

..... and my wife laughed at me when I woke her up that night and told her I felt a great disturbance in The Force.

I thought she was the one who normally felt great disturbances.

Another link for you amateurs

The monthly sky calendar of events, for those that aren't aware. Space.com has one as well, but the just get their info from the link above.

Andrew, from my analysis of the pictures it does in fact appear to be a collision of a white dwarf with a black hole(the black hole won).

Hubble, hubble. Space is a dirty place.

Did somebody order a pizza?



Oh, wait. . .wrong thread.

I think someone ordered a pita.