There’s a massive gravitational force that is tugging at galaxy clusters called the “dark flow”. A new study by a team at NASA confirms this dark flow is moving at a million miles an hour and extends 2.5 billion light years in one direction. A million miles an hour?? Consider that the earth travels at a speed of roughly (only?) 67,000 mph. This dark flow is the autobahn, while our little orbit is the road in front of a school.
That’s not what I find fascinating though. There are two things. Both pertain to the direction that this dark flow is flowing, which is in the direction of the constellation Hydra. Hydra is near Leo and this is roughly the direction that our own Solar System is traveling so that checks out ok. But get this. Here’s an excerpt from Star Lore – Myths, Legends, and Facts by William Tyler Olcott:
“The ancients perceived an analogy between a quick flowing river, and the swift gliding of a huge glistening serpent, and so, as Maunder says, we arrive at the idea of the River of the Snake, which develops into an ocean stream.”
Also interesting: depending on the source, the monster had anywhere from 9 to 100 heads. Whenever I see a myth about a creature with 2 or more heads, I immediately assume that the storytellers are talking about comets as they frequently split, giving them 2 “heads”.
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