James Webb Space Telescope spies giant cosmic question mark in deep space (photo)
James Webb Space Telescope spies giant cosmic question mark in deep space (photo)
James Web telescope finds giant question mark galaxy in deep space.
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I enjoy the jokes, but has anyone given an explanation of what it likely is?
Seems like merging galaxies. It’s too far away to be a single star being eaten by a companion. (It’d have the six-sided star mirror artifact if it were closer.) And galaxies temporarily form weird shapes as they merge
Just speculation but it would be totally plausible for a helix shaped galaxy or star (possibly being pulled into a black hole) oriented from an odd angle, with either a gap or a cloud of some sort blocking one part of it and it just happens to look like a common glyph.
But I'm no starologist
Could also be two or more systems colliding with each other. Similar to this
so we're already on the quest, cool
I wanted to guess gravitational lensing, but couldn't see how that would make a question mark.. it's still pretty cool!