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Showing posts with label nasa. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
New Dark Matter Discovery?
Seems strange that Nasa would announce a press conference five days early but this might be interesting. Dark matter in a ring...not condensed into a sphere? Is it really the dark matter or is it just a small contribution (such a bunch of MACHO brown dwarfs which don't add up to the expected twenty something percent of the universe's dark matter?
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