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James Web telescope finds giant question mark galaxy in deep space.

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[-] [email protected] 141 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago

that's the intro quest in the tutorial.. and it's 16 billion light years away.. thanks Universe devs..

[-] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

If that's the tutorial quest I don't think I want to see the final boss.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Achievement Unlocked!

Travel 100 light years from your planet of origin.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Lemmy just hit a new high today. As I came in to post this, I found it as the top comment. Very old-reddit! Good job.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Yeah it's getting better. The top hour, 6 hours etc. has helped a ton too.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Old Reddit would have an expert as the top comment instead of a joke. That's something to strive for.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago

Quiet the hell down before it goes to '!'

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Huh? What was that noise?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Everyone, quick! Crouch behind a barrel!

[-] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago

It's an unloaded texture

[-] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

I enjoy the jokes, but has anyone given an explanation of what it likely is?

[-] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago

Seems like merging galaxies. It’s too far away to be a single star being eaten by a companion. (It’d have the six-sided star mirror artifact if it were closer.) And galaxies temporarily form weird shapes as they merge

[-] Soylentcolaispeople 24 points 11 months ago

Just speculation but it would be totally plausible for a helix shaped galaxy or star (possibly being pulled into a black hole) oriented from an odd angle, with either a gap or a cloud of some sort blocking one part of it and it just happens to look like a common glyph.

But I'm no starologist

[-] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago

Could also be two or more systems colliding with each other. Similar to this

[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I wanted to guess gravitational lensing, but couldn't see how that would make a question mark.. it's still pretty cool!

[-] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

More likely someone trying to invoke the improbability drive

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

If they look just a little further they're bound to find some galaxies smeared into the phrase "WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE"

[-] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

Looks like we're about to unlock a new galaxy.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You must construct additional pylons

[-] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

The Riddler has taken his antics into intergalactic space

[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

That message was sent specifically for us. Like, "We've been watching your civilization for the last 50 earth cycles. WTF?"

[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Excellent shitpost by deep space

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

It's a collectible. You can get the new dlc free if you collect 50 of them

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Growing up I really enjoyed the Riddler episodes of the animated Batman series.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Next we'll find a big CHA- etched onto some moon...

[-] httpjames 4 points 11 months ago

The aliens are questioning our societal decisions

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Dr Evils fathers home galaxy.

https://youtu.be/jMIDpJ8H7H0

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

What am I looking at??? πŸ€”πŸ˜œ

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The Doctor having a giggle. /s

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The original, some might say

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

when the whole galaxy doesn't know wtf is going on

[-] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

Next we'll find a big CHA- etched onto some moon...

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