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A beautiful map of our galaxy (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The Great Attractor kinda sounds bad

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There are some good articles explaining it but the tldr is it was named when we were unable to see through the galactic plane to what was exerting such an enormous amount of gravitational pull on everything.

(Even more tldr: It's a galaxy supercluster with another, unbelievably large galaxy supercluster behind it all lying in an area of space obscured to us by our own galaxy)

[–] RIPandTERROR 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a yo mama joke there somewhere... I'm certain of it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

perhaps if we zoom back some more...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He's responsible for the 1977 blackout in NY. Reference