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Hubble Builds 3D Dark Matter Map
astroengine writes "Dark matter can't be spotted directly because it doesn't interact with electromagnetic radiation (i.e. it doesn't emit any radiation and reflects no light). However, its gravitational influence on space-time can bend light from its otherwise straight path (a phenomenon known as 'lensing'). Using a sophisticated algorithm to scan a comprehensive Hubble Space Telescope survey of the cosmos, astronomers have plotted a map of 'weak lensing' events. Combining this with red shift measurements from ground-based observatories, they've produced a strikingly colorful 3D map of the structure of dark matter."
looks photoshopped to me
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
looks like a My Little Pony pegasus got up there and jizzed all over the lens...
... the disturbance I felt in the Force earlier. I thought I just had gas.
So luminiferous and aethereal! Almost magical like!
It's just supposed to shed some light on dark matter.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
Exactly! That's the same reason I'm a creationist: evolution is also still just a theory. I'm also not fooled by their lies that the world is more than 6000 years old, because all those physicists have are silly theories to back up their ridiculous zillions of years nonsense (or whatever the age is this week!). I support you 100%. The high priests of this "godless science" religion need to be removed from the pedastal they're sitting on!
Well, if the language doesn't want to be raped it shouldn't wear such a short skirt.
You have to stand about 3 feet away, and let your eyes go fuzzy. It's a cute picture of a unicorn.
An important change for education.
The language was asking for it.