Monday 12 May 2008

Piece of Missing Cosmic Matter Found


Source: Space.com
Image Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/ EPIC/ ESO (J. Dietrich)/ SRON (N. Werner)/ MPE (A. Finoguenov)

Astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) and the European Southern Observatory in Germany, as well as the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research used the XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory to observe a filament of dense gas connecting two clusters of galaxies, Abell 222 and Abell 223. (read more)

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