
Hanny’s Voorwerp—which probably means The Galactic Empire of the Nefarious Ones or Hanny’s Object in Dutch—is as large as our entire home galaxy, the Milky Way. We only can see part of it in this image because it’s illuminated by a searchlight beam from a quasar, located inside the spiral galaxy core—I know, this is getting quite unbelievable—called IC 2947 and located 650 million light-years from Earth. There’s an apparent hole in the middle of it, but it’s all an optical illusion: NASA scientists think that this is the 20,000 light-year wide shadow from an object between the quasar and the cloud stream, which makes it a shadow projector of galactic proportions. Are we really supposed to believe that?
Astronomers also say that the green cloud—captured using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)—glows in green because of the oxygen in it.
Hookay. If you want to believe all that, it’s fine by me, but I know that his is no gas stream. This is an alien world fleet illuminated by the green glow of millions of artificial stars with kryptonite cores. Yes, an empire of millions of fully robotized and armed planets populated by evil silicon-based lifeforms. And they are getting ready to invade that spiral galaxy.
Or they were, 650 million light-years ago. Now they are probably headed to Earth. You fools. [NASA]




















LucasF
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 9:17 PMJesus – it’s nice to see someone drinks at work as much as I do.
Colmbie
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 9:56 PMGesundheit!
Lynx
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 12:50 AMIT’S THE BORG!!!! RUN!!!
Jon
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 11:00 AMTHEY’LL MURDER US ALLl!!!!
Won’t somebody think of the children! Feed them to the Borg first!
Felly
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 11:37 AMI giggled like a school girl at the last line.
Rob
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 1:12 PMcan you see the creepy eyes in the bottom right corner?
Anthony Hamilton
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 2:02 AMI can only see creepy eyes in the bottom-left corner.
Kiz
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 2:29 PMsorry to be that guy but “I know that his is no gas stream”…