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About 3.5 million years ago—just a blink of an eye in cosmic time—a tremendous explosion rocked the center of our galaxy.

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English: About 3.5 million years ago—just a blink of an eye in cosmic time—a tremendous explosion rocked the center of our galaxy. Our distant hominid ancestors, already afoot on the African plains, likely would have seen the resulting flare as a ghostly glow high overhead in the night sky. Now, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's unique capabilities have uncovered even more clues to this cataclysmic explosion.
Date 2 June 2020, 15:15:00 (upload date)
Source Hominids Walking Under Milky Way Flare
Author , , G. Cecil (UNC, Chapel Hill), and J. DePasquale () Acknowledgment: P. Horálek/ESO
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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
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