Does anyone know how this compares with NASA's usual routine for announcing cool discoveries? The internet seems to be getting all excited about this, but if this kind of vague press conference announcement is just their standard way of announcing a new funky-looking cloud of gas, a lot of UFO hunters are going to be disappointed...
Edit: Not that I don't personally find funky-looking clouds of gas fascinating, but if you google 'exceptional object' right now the top results are all conspiracy theory websites.
I know I've seen a lot of NASA releases described in terms like this. "Exceptional" to astrophysicists and "exceptional" to the general public are definitely different things.
I'm sure it'll be cool from a scientific perspective, but it's definitely not going to be alien signals or anything.
The last one I saw with similar wording was for an exoplanet system with I think 4 planets, which was somewhat similar to our own and may have contained a planet less than twice the size of Earth. So to the general public by no means earth shattering.
First thing I though of was a red dwarf or similar to be the new closest known star but I don't think that's really xray based.
Edit: Not that I don't personally find funky-looking clouds of gas fascinating, but if you google 'exceptional object' right now the top results are all conspiracy theory websites.