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The Core of This Galaxy Far, Far Away Looks Like a TIE Fighter – Gizmodo Australia
This distant region of space is either a Star Wars TIE Fighter measuring 35 light-years across or an active galactic nucleus spewing all sorts of delicious astronomical data. Hard to say. A young and energetic galactic core called TXS 0128+554, or simply TXS …
This distant region of space is either a Star Wars TIE Fighter measuring 35 light-years across or an active galactic nucleus spewing all sorts of delicious astronomical data. Hard to say.
A young and energetic galactic core called TXS 0128+554, or simply TXS 0128, bears an uncanny resemblance to a TIE fighter when seen at a specific radio frequency. For Star Wars fans, this observation stands on its own merits, but this churning nucleus, located 500 million light-years away, shows how quickly t…
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