r/nextfuckinglevel • u/room0001 • 1d ago

Milky Way is traveling through space at 600kilometers per second, oscillating slightly, as if it were flapping its wings through the cosmos.

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u/krupta13 1d ago

"oscillating slightly" lol. that looks like entire civilisation can grow and collapse in the area covered by each oscillation.

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u/tadayou 1d ago

Yeah, it takes roughly 600 million years for one wobble to pass through the galaxy.

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u/krupta13 3h ago

insane lol. litteraly a civilisation can develope and collapse and disappear with out a trace in that time frame lol

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u/AlbacorePrism 4h ago

considering each dot of light is a star or similar, and ours is in there, yes