A Mysterious Wave-Like Structure in Our Galaxy Found to Be Slowly Slithering (www.sciencealert.com)
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to astronomy@mander.xyz on 20 Feb 2024 23:35
https://mander.xyz/post/9900544

#astronomy

threaded - newest

Kolanaki@yiffit.net on 21 Feb 2024 02:34 next collapse

Maybe it’s that thing from Star Trek: Generations that trapped Kirk.

caseyweederman@lemmy.ca on 21 Feb 2024 11:11 next collapse

really narrows it down

fitjazz@lemmyf.uk on 21 Feb 2024 12:54 next collapse

Nexus was definitely my first thought when I read the headline.

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works on 21 Feb 2024 13:19 collapse

Thank you, sending a link to this article along with your take, to my message groups, has brought me and my friends real joy

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 2024 23:47 next collapse

The team’s measurements even suggest that the supernovae that virtually cleared the bubble of space in which the Milky Way resides was born in a cluster of stars within the Radcliffe Wave.

Wait, the Milky Way is inside of a bubble generated by novae which were inside a cluster which is inside the Radcliffe Wave which is… itself… inside the Milky Way?

gibmiser@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 2024 01:22 collapse

Universe is big, my homie.

Wogi@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 2024 01:41 collapse

I hope so, all my stuff is in there

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 2024 03:19 collapse

Hey, that’s where I keep my stuff too. Don’t mix up your stuff with mine!

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works on 21 Feb 2024 13:24 collapse

What’s with all this other people’s stuff in my universe!!

NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 2024 02:33 next collapse

It’s just a space snake, chill tf out

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 2024 04:27 collapse

Where’s Samuel L Jackson when you need him

Denalduh@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 2024 13:31 collapse

He’s busy pressing the snake button on the microwave.

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world on 22 Feb 2024 03:06 collapse

Are the wobbles just from the gas cloud being pulled by gravity from everything?