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NASA Amused by Galaxy That Looks Like a TIE Fighter – Futurism

Sorry but yes, it’s far, far away.

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TIE Fighter Galaxy
Using NASAs Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope in 2015, a team of astronomers spotted, a galaxy with an unusual shape.
Several years later, they returned for a much closer look at the object far, far away, using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a system of ten radio telescopes in Hawaii, and NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory.
After the Fermi announcement, we zoomed in a million times closer on the galaxy using the VLBAs radio antennas and charted its shape over time, Matthew…

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