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A giant radio galaxy could be home to almost 30 Milky Way galaxies (lemmy.world)

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Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy (GRG) named Inkathazo, which has plasma jets measuring 3.3 million light-years—32 times the size of the Milky Way—using South Africa's MeerKAT telescope.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hold up, whats with copy/paste galaxy bottom right? I know gravatational lensing is a thing but that just looks silly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For the people who don't know: Those are foreground stars, the black center is due to the camera pixels becoming overloaded and leaking into adjacent pixels. So no UFOs and not galaxies.

And it seems someone wanted the image to be wider so there is a bit copy pasted on the right it seems. Very weird edit really.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Ahh thanks. I didn't catch those were stars

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Looks like someone with hotdogs for fingers tried to shop this image into wide format and failed, heres the real, untainted version ![what is this tag even for](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3a2687d0-8973-41b0-8b21-2f5af586b9de.jpeg]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Shit, look at all those black flying saucers coming straight at the telescope! Quick, hide the women, arm the kids and call {current best alien killing hollywood star}!