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Astronomers are scratching their heads after discovering a protostellar disk around a young star containing a whopping amount of salts. Orion SrcI is about 1,500 light years away and is currently classified as a young stellar object. It’s a hefty star – fifteen times heavier than our Sun – and is still nestled in a nurturing …

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  1. Woza

    I'd take that report

    With a grain of salt.

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    1. MyffyW Silver badge
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      Coat

      Interstellar Ramen Noodle Exhibit

      Be careful children, that's a lot of sodium.

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      1. TRT Silver badge
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        Re: Interstellar Ramen Noodle Exhibit

        As reported by the Russian's Soya Space Station?

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  2. 89724102172714182892114I7551670349743096734346773478647892349863592355648544996312855148587659264921

    That much salt around Uranus would be uncomfortable

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    1. Spherical Cow Silver badge
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      You seem to mention that planet a lot. You must really like Uranus!

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  3. arctic_haze
    Alien

    is the Universe getting salty because of what we do with our planet?

    Just asking.

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  4. Blazde Silver badge
    Alien

    Noting that at no point does the paper rule out the possibility this is an alien fish and chip shop accident.

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  5. Richard_Sideways

    CRISPS IN SPAAAAACE!

    IIRC there was a huge cloud of acetic acid discovered a few years back... what next? The Prawn Cocktail stellar nursery? A cheese and onion binary system? The Nice'n'Spicy NikNak nebula?

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    1. Spherical Cow Silver badge
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      Pint

      Re: CRISPS IN SPAAAAACE!

      So long as there is a galaxy of beer to wash it all down.

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      1. VikiAi
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        Pint

        Re: CRISPS IN SPAAAAACE!

        Since alcohol is a hydrocarbon, I imagine there are some moons awash with the stuff not to far away from here (some filtering and distillation may be required)!

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  6. Blockchain commentard

    I vote on renaming the star 'the Tequila Slammer'.

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  7. TrumpSlurp the Troll
    Mushroom

    Simple explanation?

    Salts found in old star. New star hit something. Something was old star.

    Thank you. Nobel prize in old notes, please. No consecutive numbers.

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    1. TeeCee Gold badge
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      Re: Simple explanation?

      More like old star go kaboom at end of life. Time passes. New star forms in vicinity which is quite salty from remains of old star.

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  8. TRT Silver badge

    Alderaan.

    I believe it had great, big, wide, rolling blue oceans.

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  9. Graham Butler

    500 years ago? If it's 1500 light years away, wouldn't it be 2000 years ago?

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    1. VikiAi
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      Happy

      Time is relative

      And the more time spent a long distance from relatives, the better.

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  10. Anonymous Coward
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    Still not as salty as your average League of Legends player.

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  11. Muscleguy

    I have postural hypotension, if I sit or crouch for too long or at all in hot weather and then stand up I get all dizzy because my blood pressure doesn't rise like it should. Can I have a smidgeon of some of that please, especially if it's mildly iodised. Got to keep the thyroid ticking over.

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  12. Mark 85

    To paraphrase... "Space is strange. Unbelievably strange and totally unlike anything we can imagine".

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  13. Michael Hoffmann Silver badge
    Boffin

    New El Reg unit

    Can we use this as unit of recommended daily Sodium allowance?

    As in “this bag of crisps is 34 pico-orionscris of the daily allowance” (pronounced oh-rye-ON-screes)

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  14. Sleep deprived
    Coat

    Any trace of pepper or paprika?

    (that's all the spices we had at home at the time this cloud formed).

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