There’s new information about the Guitar Pulsar, a stellar corpse that leaves a guitar shaped wake. From New Scientist…
To hunt for the pulsar’s birthplace, Nina Tetzlaff at the University of Jena in Germany and colleagues projected the paths of 140 nearby groups of stars backwards in time over 5 million years.
Previous work suggests the star was ejected at over 1500 kilometres per second. The team says the pulsar’s path indicates that 800,000 years ago it was fired from a cluster of massive stars that now lies about 6500 light years away from Earth (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol 400, p L99).
It’s a puzzle why the pulsar is moving so fast. Speeds greater than 1000 kilometres per second are hard to account for with current astronomy models, says James Cordes of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The object’s distance is not known for sure, he points out, which could mean the pulsar’s speed and its position have been misjudged.
So, we know where it came from and we know it’s really fast (faster than “Flight Of The Bumblebee” at 320 BPM!) but, we don’t really know where it is.
Perhaps, the Royal Astronomical Society should consult Astrophysicist/Guitarist, Brian May.
huh…looks like an acoustic guitar really. Cool flames though. I had it pictured as a Hendrix Strat or a Gibson Explorer or a Randy Rhoads Jackson, something like that. Go figure.
Well, considering what we saw here, it doesn’t come as a total shock that the new Rammstein album, “Liebe ist Für Alle Da” (“Love is For All”), is finding some resistance. From Billboard…
The album “Liebe ist Für Alle Da” (“Love is For All”) by German hard rock group Rammstein – currently at No. 2 on Billboard’s European Albums Chart – has been banned from public display in German stores with effect from Nov. 11 on account of its depictions of sadism/masochism, which have been deemed to be harmful to children and young people.
Announcing this ruling, Petra Meier, the deputy president of the Federal Office for the Examination of Media Harmful to Young People, cited the track “Ich tue Dir Weh” (“I Want to Hurt You”) as well as the artwork showing guitarist Richard Kruspe with a masked, naked woman on his knees. The Federal Office objected to the fact that the track includes lines such as “Bites, kicks, heavy blows, nails, pincers, blunt saws – Tell me what you want.”
What is more troubling is that there exists an entity called “The Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons” or, “Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien” if you will or, more simply “BPjM”.
The female bears at a zoo in Leipzig, Germany have all gone bald leaving the vets puzzled.
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