Science
NASA scientists zoomed in a million times on a far away galaxy and found a shape similar to Darth Vader’s TIE fighter – ABC News
Scientists using radio telescopes to look deep into space have tuned into a frequency that reveals a shape that should be familiar and maybe a touch worrying to sci-fi fans.
When NASA scientists probed and charted a far away galaxy, they were surprised to discover a familiar shape lurking 500 million light-years from Earth Darth Vader’s TIE fighter spaceship from the Star Wars franchise.
- Due to the weakness of detectable signals from the TIE fighter galaxy, scientists needed years of data for their analysis
- The galaxy they studied appeared as different shapes, depending on the radio frequencies used to perceive it
- The study found the TIE fig…
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