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James Webb Space Telescope spies giant cosmic question mark in deep space (photo)(sh.itjust.works)

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

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Soylentcolaispeople@sh.itjust.works
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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

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Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
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Could also be two or more systems colliding with each other. Similar to this

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

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