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| Above, the Godzilla mural at Toho Studios in Setagaya. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
The King of the Monsters was honored by NASA and astronomy researchers with a constellation name.
NHK reported:
An international team of researchers has given the name Godzilla to one of what it calls the modern constellations. The monster is among the most popular film characters created in Japan.
The team, made up of US space agency NASA and worldwide astronomy researchers, announced 21 new gamma-ray "constellations" to mark the 10th year of operations of its Fermi satellite for astronomical observation.
The constellation was named "Godzilla" due to the "monster's trademark heat ray bears a resemblance to gamma-ray jets associated with black holes and neutron stars."
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