[Red Badger]

RING PING!....................

Cue up Journey...3...2...1.......

[Mount Athos]

this is far more incredible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PDzB6S9EN8

[UnwashedPeasant]

To me, it looks like an eye with an eyebrow, but they are looking at it upside down.

[UnwashedPeasant]

”with a diameter of approximately 1.3 billion light-years and a total circumference of around 4 billion light-years”

For reference, the radius of the observable universe is estimated to be about 46.5 billion light-years.

This discovery is like something from The Twilight Zone.

[imabadboy99]

I guess i don’t get what the big deal is about this.

[DannyTN]

If you think that is something, you should see the Big Fiancee!

[Political Junkie Too]

It looks like concentric ripples in water when a rock is thrown in.

There must have been some initial gravitational event that occurred that caused a series of waves that flowed out from the center of impact.

-PJ

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I must confess, I have my doubts that is real. It looks like someone used photoshop and drew blue dots in a circle.

[noiseman]

I came here for the usual “ring around Uranus” thread, but was disappointed to find you all discussing science like intelligent adults. What is this world coming to?

[lee martell]

Just “a Hoot & a Holler” in total distance!
Speaking as an Alien.

[Theophilus]

9.2 billion light-years away from Earth.

Bah humbug!

[trebb]

The Universe is huge and there are a lot of shapes because - the Universe is huge....and it is beyond Man’s grasp to understand it all...

[Lazamataz]

We have found the Pierson Puppeteers. Can the Kzinti be far behind?

[moovova]

[TomGuy]

It is a gigantic star gate.

[Vaduz]

Maybe the vortex is the universal shape Voyager 1 gets instructions turn left.

It’s only about 15 million miles out.

[UnwashedPeasant]

It is also interesting that the circle is pointing at us.

It seems just as likely that we would see the side of it.

[SunkenCiv]

A lot of these are your postings, nice job!

• Astronomy Picture of the Day - Dragon Aurora over Iceland [01/14/2024]
• NASA's Fermi telescope discovers unknown gamma-ray pattern beyond our galaxy [01/14/2024]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - Circling the Sun [01/13/2024]
• Astronomers accidentally discover 'dark' primordial galaxy with no visible stars [01/12/2024]
• Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy [01/12/2024]
• 90-seat Elysian airliner: 800-1,000-km range on batteries alone [01/12/2024]
• They're Not Aliens. That's the Verdict From Peru Officials Who Seized 2 Doll-Like Figures [01/12/2024]
• NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft [01/12/2024]
• Fusion lights the Universe...A correct view of cosmic evolution that abandons the Big Bang will help humanity take the next step in producing fusion energy here on Earth [Part 3] [01/12/2024]
• Fusion from filaments on Earth and in the cosmos...Part 2 of 'The Big Bang never happened -- so what did?' [01/12/2024]
• The Big Bang never happened -- so what did?...Cosmic evolution without mythology [Part 1] [01/12/2024]
• Boeing, DARPA revolutionizing the future of stealth aircraft...CRANE program's X-65 prototype aims to break the mold of how aircraft fly with new active flow control technology [01/11/2024]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - Quadrantids of the North [01/11/2024]
• Aurora Flight Sciences to build DARPA's X-65 utilizing Active Flow Control [01/11/2024]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty [01/10/2024]
• NASA's Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf [01/10/2024]
• It's Official: NASA Has Pushed Back Its Return to The Moon [01/09/2024]
• Astrobotic: Peregrine spacecraft won't land on moon after propellant loss [01/09/2024]
• Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Flight 71! 🔴 (January 6, 2024) [01/09/2024]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - Thor's Helmet [01/09/2024]
• Color-corrected images reveal accurate portraits of Uranus and Neptune [01/09/2024]

[minnesota_bound]

Something went KABLOOEY! long ago.

[TChad]

Larry Niven is still alive. Ask him.