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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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[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Glifted@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ahh thanks. I didn't catch those were stars

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