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[-] doc@fedia.io 46 points 5 days ago

This is from 2010. Here's a 2026 article. Spolier: we still don't know what exactly these are. Space. 🤯

https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stories/quick-reads/blowing-bubbles-in-the-gamma-ray-sky/

[-] core@leminal.space 15 points 5 days ago
[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

Oh, I know this one! They hold the camera with their chin against their neck. It's awkward, but that lets them have both balls in view.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Selfie stick

[-] zedgeist@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago
[-] shweddy@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago
[-] oce@jlai.lu 12 points 5 days ago

Nov 09, 2010 WASHINGTON – NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. “What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 light-years north and south of the galactic center,” said Doug Finkbeiner, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who first recognized the feature. “We don’t fully understand their nature or origin.” https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasas-fermi-telescope-finds-giant-structure-in-our-galaxy/

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago
[-] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

this made me laugh, thanks

[-] PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Reminds me of the haidingers brush. Shows we are living in a fractal and everything repeats itself in slightly different form

[-] felixrostrum@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago
[-] exothermic@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Pi orbitals

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 5 days ago

Ummm... reference?

[-] fuzz00713@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago
[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Someone at the center ate Taco Bell

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago
[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago
[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Probably just a supermassive black hole that ate something which isn't as effected by gravity as we thought.

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