Scientists believe they've spotted the biggest Wave ever discovered. But before you pull out your surfboard, you should probably know this is a tad bigger than anything you'd find on Earth: this wave is roiling through an extremely hot gas cloud in the Perseus cluster and stretches 200,000 light-years across, meaning it's twice the size of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Category: Space
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- Astronomy
- Galaxy
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