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Early galaxies — or something else? Mizzou scientists uncover mysterious objects in the universe (showme.missouri.edu)
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[–] TauZero@mander.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

The crazy thing to me is that as you look at galaxies further away, they become bigger in the sky. Obligatory xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2622:_Angular_Diameter_Turnaround There could be huge dragons out there occluding half the sky, but they'd be beyond the last scattering surface of the cosmic microwave background.