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A beautiful map of our galaxy (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The Great Attractor kinda sounds bad

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are some good articles explaining it but the tldr is it was named when we were unable to see through the galactic plane to what was exerting such an enormous amount of gravitational pull on everything.

(Even more tldr: It's a galaxy supercluster with another, unbelievably large galaxy supercluster behind it all lying in an area of space obscured to us by our own galaxy)

[–] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a yo mama joke there somewhere... I'm certain of it

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

perhaps if we zoom back some more...

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He's responsible for the 1977 blackout in NY. Reference