Wednesday, May 16, 2007

[picture] Hubble finds dark matter smoke ring

This image is of the galaxy cluster CL0024+1652, a galactic city located a whopping 5 billion light years away! That means the light we see from this cluster left it five billion years ago, so we’re seeing this structure as it was when the Universe was just 2/3 its present age. Almost every small object in that image is a galaxy...



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