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Thursday, November 9, 2023

The Question Mark

I have a lot of questions about space.   The usual stuff.  Why is anything out there in the first place?  Why is gravity a thing?  Can I safety juggle knives in a parallel universe?

Apparently, space has questions about itself.  At least it has question marks.  The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured an image of a pair of actively forming stars known as Herbig-Haro 46/47.  But a detail at the very bottom of the frame captured even more attention.  An orange formation there has collected into the unmistakable shape of a question mark.  Scientists believe the punctuation mark is two or more galaxies merging in the periphery of the forming stars.  But is it?

The Question Mark

—Mitchell Hegman

Source: NPR

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