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Date: 24 Aug 2007 02:37:09
From: Mk2
Subject: So what is it?
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20415284/from/RS.1/
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Date: 26 Aug 2007 06:11:35
From: Bill Hudson
Subject: Re: So what is it?
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:37:09 +0000, Mk2 wrote:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20415284/from/RS.1/
An immense cold region in space with no emissions whatsoever? *Now* I
know where my first wife went!
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Date: 26 Aug 2007 17:44:17
From: Mk2
Subject: Re: So what is it?
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LMAO!!...at 1 billion ly's in diameter, there's plenty of room!
"Bill Hudson" <oldgeek61-951@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:far5in01gsi@news1.newsguy.com...
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:37:09 +0000, Mk2 wrote:
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>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20415284/from/RS.1/
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> An immense cold region in space with no emissions whatsoever? *Now* I
> know where my first wife went!
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Date: 24 Aug 2007 02:02:30
From: George
Subject: Re: So what is it?
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"Mk2" <mk@comcast.com > wrote in message news:pvrzi.631$bO6.614@edtnps89...
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20415284/from/RS.1/
Wow, just think. A new field of science can be created out of this:
Astro-Spelunking! Who'da thunk it?
George
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Date: 23 Aug 2007 21:07:38
From: SkySea
Subject: Re: So what is it?
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>Mk2" <mk@comcast.com> wrote:
>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20415284/from/RS.1/
From the article, it sounds like it's too early and information is too
sparse to really tell. But...
"Two views of the hole in the universe: The left view shows a “cold
spot” within the circle on a color-coded image of the full-sky cosmic
microwave background, as seen by NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy
Probe. The right view shows the same region on the Very Large Array
Sky Survey, with blue indicating low radio emissions."
"The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its
kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise.
The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black
hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this
one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other normal matter, and it's
also strangely empty of the mysterious "dark matter" that permeates
the cosmos. Other space voids have been found before, but nothing on
this scale." ...
..."Although our surprising results need independent confirmation, the
slightly colder temperature of the CMB in this region appears to be
caused by a huge hole devoid of nearly all matter roughly 6 to 10
billion light-years from Earth," Rudnick said."...
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- Dale Gombert (SkySea at aol.com)
122.38W, 47.58N, W. Seattle, WA
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