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Mysterious intergalactic bridge spanning 10 MILLION light-years spotted between galaxy clusters in first of its kind discovery
2019-06-09
Posted by:Skidmark

#8  "Bridge" overstates things a bit, of course. "Thin trail of gas less dense than the vacuum between stars in our galaxy" might be another way of saying it.
For more of the big picture...
https://www.vox.com/2014/9/4/6105631/map-galaxy-supercluster-laniakea-milky-way
Posted by: james   2019-06-09 19:56  

#7  looks like Scandanavian mythology had it right all along
Posted by: 746   2019-06-09 15:15  

#6  I'd like to live long enough to find that transliterated oral mythologies are fact based.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-06-09 12:34  

#5  Maybe it's not really a highway.

Maybe it's a giant tree.


Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2019-06-09 09:51  

#4  The highway is there and operating.
We just need to create a backwoods country onramp without sucking the moon into one of the poles.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-06-09 07:57  

#3  Something tells me that the science ain't settled after all.

Okay guys, now get back to work on figuring out how magnetic super-highways can be used to travel the cosmos and provide unlimited clean energy.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-06-09 07:14  

#2  That's I-4. Stay off of it. Always congested.
Maybe has to do with the fact that is more of an observation deck than a means of movement.
Posted by: newc   2019-06-09 00:21  

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Posted by: Skidmark   2019-06-08 08:17  

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