Bruce Wayne may have given us the signal on Earth, but there's a bat shadow in deep space. The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a "curious 'flapping' motion" around the star HBC 627, nicknamed ...

The shadow is absolutely massive, at around 200 times the diameter of our solar system. In fact, it’s so large that it takes around 45 days for light from the star to travel to its edge.

Science NASA Hubble telescope eyes cosmic 'bat shadow' in Serpens Nebula Paging Batman. The superhero might want to take a look at the eerie Bat-Signal about 1,300 light-years away.

The shadow of the protoplanetary disk moves over 404 days. ESA/Hubble, K. Pontoppidan, L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser "The shadow moves. It's flapping like the wings of a bird!" ...

But, as they observed Bat Shadow over 13 months, it looked like the shadow had moved. "You have a star that is surrounded by a disc, and the disc is not like Saturn's rings — it's not flat.