starlight | Date: Sunday, 20-July-2014, 6:40 PM | Message # 1 |
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| According to observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope, the Universe is missing 80 per cent of all its light. Astronomers are completely baffled: “We still don’t know for sure what it is, but at least one thing we thought we knew about the present day universe isn’t true.”
Those are the strong words of the co-author of the paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by Ohio State University’s David Weinberg. The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph detected that the tendrils of hydrogen that bridge the galaxies are not lighting up as expected. They are lighting up too much and we can see neither the light nor the sources from which the light is coming from.
Read more/Full article/source - http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014....missing
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