NASA discovers giant question mark where universe failed to render correctly
NASA's James Webb space telescope was launched in late 2021, and since summer 2022 the space agency's boffins have been releasing the remarkable images of the universe it has taken. These are stunning pictures, the kind that make you realise what ants we all are and question humanity's place in the universe, and one of the latest really makes you question things.
I mean, you've seen it already. That is a zoomed-in fragment from this image taken by the James Webb, and it's a near-perfect cosmic rendering of a question mark. I've got a minor obsession with these images and have had a few framed, even my desktop background is one of them, but I've never seen anything that made me question my spirituality more.
We'll get to the theorising about what this actually might be in a moment, but first: the bad jokes. The reason this hopped out at me wasn't just the astonishing image itself, but the fact that I first saw it thanks to a Reddit thread where most folks' instant reaction was to relate this cosmic occurrence to videogames.
RemarkableToast notes: «Looks like NASA has a quest to turn in.» OldJames47 reckons «it's a 10 Billion Lightyear escort quest but the NPC moves at 1% of C.» Droideater's eager to get things moving: «Quick, turn that quest in, the XP will be stellar!»
I half-inched this article's headline from Horrus70, who says it's «no big deal. That part of space just hasn't rendered yet» («literally unplayable» adds popper_wheelie). Then a classic exchange:
FarewellAndroid: «God out here hitting us with that dlc
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