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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 (4 children)

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

[–] [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}!

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