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It would have been cool enough just to find one that is still where it is born, but the way they describe the effects of an outburst are just too much. I have thought about a pulse of light going through space like a line segment but I don't know if anyone has ever taken a picture of it before. This may be unique in a lot of ways. Too bad we can't get movies of the light shell.<br /><br />http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050619190747.htm<br /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Astronomers first saw hints of the infrared echo in strange, tangled dust features that showed up in the Spitzer test image. When they looked at the same dust features again a few months later using ground-based telescopes, the dust appeared to be moving outward at the speed of light. Follow-up Spitzer observations taken one year later revealed the dust was not moving, but was being lit up by passing light.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />Maybe it is just me but I think that is the most exciting thing I have read in a long time. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>