Mystery solved!
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Mystery solved! Probably! A weird oxygen gas cloud discovered in 2023 that's near the Andromeda Galaxy in the sky is actually a nebula inside our own Milky Way. This is super cool stuff.
Mystery solved? Baffling huge nebula near Andromeda Galaxy is actually in our neighborhood
Weird arcing cloud of oxygen is most likely part of the Milky Way, not our giant neighbor
Bad Astronomy Newsletter (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)
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Mystery solved! Probably! A weird oxygen gas cloud discovered in 2023 that's near the Andromeda Galaxy in the sky is actually a nebula inside our own Milky Way. This is super cool stuff.
Mystery solved? Baffling huge nebula near Andromeda Galaxy is actually in our neighborhood
Weird arcing cloud of oxygen is most likely part of the Milky Way, not our giant neighbor
Bad Astronomy Newsletter (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)
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Mystery solved! Probably! A weird oxygen gas cloud discovered in 2023 that's near the Andromeda Galaxy in the sky is actually a nebula inside our own Milky Way. This is super cool stuff.
Mystery solved? Baffling huge nebula near Andromeda Galaxy is actually in our neighborhood
Weird arcing cloud of oxygen is most likely part of the Milky Way, not our giant neighbor
Bad Astronomy Newsletter (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)
@badastro I love the quote by Joseph Newton that "Parallax is how we tell if something small is actually small, or if it's far away." https://youtu.be/kkfIXUjkYqE
Turns out... this was just small and closer, not big and farther away.
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Mystery solved! Probably! A weird oxygen gas cloud discovered in 2023 that's near the Andromeda Galaxy in the sky is actually a nebula inside our own Milky Way. This is super cool stuff.
Mystery solved? Baffling huge nebula near Andromeda Galaxy is actually in our neighborhood
Weird arcing cloud of oxygen is most likely part of the Milky Way, not our giant neighbor
Bad Astronomy Newsletter (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)
@badastro This really IS supercoolstuff@!!!!
