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Inbetween Galaxies...

1 by Hunter
Founder
...A huge spaceship was seen exploding by the Hubble telescope, recorded around 2006. Ah, well actually no, but that's my take on this report about an object that supposedly brightened for a period of 100 days and then disappeared, an object that appeared inbetween galaxies. What kind of object could that possibly be?
Now you don't see it, now you do. Something in Bootes truly in the middle of nowhere — apparently not even in a galaxy — brightened by at least 120 times during more than three months and then faded away. Its spectrum was like nothing ever seen, write the discoverers, with "five broad absorption bands between 4100 and 6500 Angstroms and a mostly featureless continuum longward of 6500 Angstroms." Even the cause of the spectral features is unknown.
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2 by Flipside
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That was us, sorry 'bout that, just add it to the list of mistakes, not as bad as Thirdspace, but still, nobody's perfect ;)

Seriously though, that is kind of a quandry, maybe a very high velocity wanderer that escaped the gravity well or something?
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3 by BloodEagle
SG Defender
Now, I'm not an astrophysicist (or whatever they're being called, now), but could it have been some sort of micro-quasar?
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4 by ngtm1r
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It could have been a lot of things, however none of the answers make sense.

My guess is it's the Tyranid Hive Fleets suffering a massive case of indigestion, or perhaps a total malfunction of the onboard power sources of a Berserker, or maybe it's that Ancients warship that set out from Pegasus discovering that overclocking their sublight drives to a significant fraction of C like that was A Bad Idea.
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