Universe Today - Dark Matter Maps

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DATE : Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:00:00 -0800
Entered in Database : 2005-12-14 22:00:00
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What's the Universe made of? Don't worry if you don't have a clue, astronomers don't either. The Universe is dominated by a mysterious dark matter that seems to form the true mass of a galaxy, not the regular matter - like stars and planets - that we can actually see. Dr. James Jee from Johns Hopkins University used the Hubble Space Telescope to create a detailed map of dark matter concentrations around two galaxies. And astronomers just got some new clues.

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