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James Web telescope finds giant question mark galaxy in deep space.

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[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Seems like merging galaxies. Itโ€™s too far away to be a single star being eaten by a companion. (Itโ€™d have the six-sided star mirror artifact if it were closer.) And galaxies temporarily form weird shapes as they merge

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