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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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roastgoat@lemmy.world
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Deep space quest marker

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theodewere@kbin.social
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that’s the intro quest in the tutorial… and it’s 16 billion light years away… thanks Universe devs…

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Jay@lemmy.world
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If that’s the tutorial quest I don’t think I want to see the final boss.

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intensely_human@lemm.ee
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Achievement Unlocked!

Travel 100 light years from your planet of origin.

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Screwthehole@lemmy.world
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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.

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psycho_driver@lemmy.world
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Yeah it’s getting better. The top hour, 6 hours etc. has helped a ton too.

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Serinus@lemmy.world
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Old Reddit would have an expert as the top comment instead of a joke. That’s something to strive for.

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FunkyMonk@kbin.social
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Quiet the hell down before it goes to ‘!’

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IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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Huh? What was that noise?

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RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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Everyone, quick! Crouch behind a barrel!

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wabafee@lemm.ee
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It’s an unloaded texture

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eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz
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I enjoy the jokes, but has anyone given an explanation of what it likely is?

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ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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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

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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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eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz
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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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epicsninja@lemmy.world
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Looks like we’re about to unlock a new galaxy.

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ayyndrew@lemm.ee
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We need more Power Stars

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sebinspace@lemmy.world
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You must construct additional pylons

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