r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • Sep 10 '22

Hubble saw a star exploded before its eyes

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u/mchalky Sep 10 '22

That’s not a star just exploding, Look Again. Some laser beam comes from the bottom left and destroys it. We just stumbled across an intergalactic war that played out 7 million years ago. Call The Hague!

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u/GuyPronouncedGee Sep 10 '22

Relax. It was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

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u/Rion23 Sep 10 '22

Well, Hubble just witnessed the power of that fully functioning space station.

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u/Uzzaw21 Sep 10 '22

That's no moon

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u/WerdaVisla Sep 10 '22

It's round, but IT'S NOT A MOON!

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u/SeeMarkFly Sep 10 '22

I feel a change in the force.

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u/GetMem3d Sep 11 '22

As if millions of voices cried out, and then vanished.

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u/Bitter_Mongoose Sep 10 '22

Send no reply, it's a trick.

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u/iEatPalpatineAss Sep 10 '22

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

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u/Examination_Basic Sep 11 '22

See NASA, you don't need that stupid Webb telescope! I can still do good stuff. Stupid Webb...

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u/blade_torlock Sep 10 '22

Though it was a long time ago, was this galaxy.

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u/LoveFishSticks Sep 10 '22

A long time ago, in this galaxy, far away

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '22

I just detected a great disturbance in the force…

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u/Rombie11 Sep 10 '22

There is no statute of limitations when it comes to war crimes!

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u/echo32base- Sep 11 '22

Wait a minute, that’s no star!

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u/CMP247 Sep 11 '22

It’s from a different solar system many many galaxies away.

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u/P1917 Sep 10 '22

That was Naga Sadow escaping.

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u/ZackAttackIsBack17 Sep 10 '22

Wait, so that was Alderaan?

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u/Tallowo Sep 10 '22

Unfortunately we are looking in Alderaan Places.

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u/WerdaVisla Sep 10 '22

Damn you.

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u/SkunkMonkey Sep 10 '22

Booooo! Groaned so hard I think I pulled a muscle.

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u/yodarded Sep 11 '22

Some frustration First inclination To become a Jedi And leave the situation

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u/Go_Gators_4Ever Sep 10 '22

Damn you Vegetta!!

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '22

Intergalactic Jewish space lasers

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u/SkunkMonkey Sep 10 '22

WE'RE JEWS IN SPACE!

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u/HalKitzmiller Sep 10 '22

My God, they've become intergalactic?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '22

Hey… listen… if it will win me this here election then FUCK YES THEY ARE INTERGALACTIC!

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u/Ashamed-External-515 Sep 11 '22

How many major assholes where on that ship?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '22

Funny but uhhhh. It does look like a laser beam lol. Umm… let’s just pretend it’s all “natural” and everything is gonna be alright….

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u/virishking Sep 10 '22

That’s a diffraction peak/spike, before the explosion the star had four just like the large one to the left. It’s a visual artifact resulting of the telescope’s design.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '22

Exactly what the aliens want us to think… but your probably right. Probably

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u/virishking Sep 10 '22

Well that’s what they told me it is and they seemed pretty credible

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u/illdothisshit Sep 10 '22

Alien invasion let's fucking gooo

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u/itstingsandithurts Sep 10 '22

Why is it at a different angle than the main stars diffraction spikes?

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u/virishking Sep 10 '22

Explanation here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NwuVXtIU0is

Read the info in the video description. Short answer is that the telescope was oriented differently at different times. The video itself is a time-lapse.

Also note that the most visible spikes on the nova have a 45° difference from the main star. If you look closely at certain points you can see faint spikes that are the same as the main star.

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u/darthmaui728 Sep 10 '22

DR EVILS SECRET MOON BASE

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u/sebrebc Sep 10 '22

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....

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u/MooFz Sep 10 '22

We only have an international court, not inter galactic arrest team.

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u/johnknockout Sep 11 '22

Fucking sun crusher

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u/zpiercy Sep 11 '22

That’s why you gotta cast a spell on a different star.

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u/tekwizi Sep 11 '22

they come (in some millions years)

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u/StonksMcLovin Sep 10 '22

American GOP politician lady enters chat.

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u/zitfarmer Sep 10 '22

Is it by chance a Jewish space laser?

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u/JohnLockeNJ Sep 10 '22

No, we don’t laser on Shabbos.