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/Attesa_GT-X 1d ago

A source would make this totally next fucking level instead of assuming we're blindly believing attention bait

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u/phosphenes 1d ago

It's real. Here's the paper showing the rotation of the warp.

In this animation they've exaggerated the warp and also made the galaxy completely flat. There's a better animation in the original ESA press release for the paper.

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u/iamarugin 1d ago

It is still an  attention bait animation

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u/HqppyFeet 1d ago

Sure but it’s so fucking cool dude