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[–] doc@fedia.io 46 points 3 days ago

This is from 2010. Here's a 2026 article. Spolier: we still don't know what exactly these are. Space. 🀯

https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stories/quick-reads/blowing-bubbles-in-the-gamma-ray-sky/

[–] core@leminal.space 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Oh, I know this one! They hold the camera with their chin against their neck. It's awkward, but that lets them have both balls in view.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Selfie stick

[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] oce@jlai.lu 12 points 3 days ago

Nov 09, 2010 WASHINGTON – NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. β€œWhat we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 light-years north and south of the galactic center,” said Doug Finkbeiner, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who first recognized the feature. β€œWe don’t fully understand their nature or origin.” https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasas-fermi-telescope-finds-giant-structure-in-our-galaxy/

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Those are p orbitals!

[–] PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Reminds me of the haidingers brush. Shows we are living in a fractal and everything repeats itself in slightly different form

[–] exothermic@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Pi orbitals

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 3 days ago

Ummm... reference?

[–] fuzz00713@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago
[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Someone at the center ate Taco Bell

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago
[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago
[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Probably just a supermassive black hole that ate something which isn't as effected by gravity as we thought.