James Web telescope finds giant question mark galaxy in deep space.
That message was sent specifically for us. Like, “We’ve been watching your civilization for the last 50 earth cycles. WTF?”
Side quest
The aliens are questioning our societal decisions
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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
