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THE UNEXPLAINED Something huge and invisible is making nearby stars vanish, scientists propose
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| 25 April 21
| WND News Services
Posted on 04/25/2021 7:38:11 PM PDT by hapnHal
Something huge and invisible is making nearby stars vanish, scientists propose
Suns that have gone missing may have been torn away by a dark matter monster An invisible cosmic behemoth might be tearing apart the closest star cluster to the Sun, leaving one side of the cluster eerily dark and devoid of stars, according to a new study.
The culprit may be a dark matter substructure, a relic that contains the mass of 10 million Suns and is made of a mysterious non-luminous substance.
The possible presence of this “Galactic lump” was detected in a new map that charts out the enormous extent of the Hyades star cluster, located only 153 light years from Earth, which was published on Wednesday in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Scientists led by Tereza Jerabkova, a research fellow at the European Space Agency, came across the unnerving lump while examining the Hyades cluster using data collected by ESA’s Gaia satellite.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: astronomy; chat; darkmatter; hyadescluster; notnews; spacecancer
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:38:11 PM PDT
by
hapnHal
To: All
Save us Greta Thurnberg!!
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:40:16 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Jeffrey Epsteins last words "I am not committing suicide".)
To: hapnHal
Damn Xeelee! There goes the galactic neighborhood.
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:41:35 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
(The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
To: BipolarBob
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:42:26 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: hapnHal
Call the Doctor!
This was supposed to have been stopped and reversed already...
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:42:58 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
To: hapnHal
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:43:09 PM PDT
by
bwest
To: hapnHal
Personification of astronomical events indicates excellent reporting and 100% alignment with scientific observations. (Yeah, that’s called sarcasm.)
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:43:14 PM PDT
by
ConservativeInPA
(“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
To: bwest
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:43:50 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
To: hapnHal
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:43:57 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: hapnHal
I hate when galactic lumps tear through my neighborhood.
10
posted on
04/25/2021 7:44:01 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: hapnHal
To: hapnHal
Good luck and thanks for the fish!
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:45:43 PM PDT
by
fuente
(Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
To: hapnHal
A red head is needed to activate the Xunca devise.
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:45:47 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
To: bwest
"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."Wasn't that the ending to a story where they bought an IBM to print out all the possible names of God?
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:46:01 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:46:29 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: bwest
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. I grew up on that stuff. Clarke, Bradbury, Azimov...
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:47:32 PM PDT
by
Fido969
( Sc)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:47:42 PM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
To: DannyTN
I believe it was an Arthur C. Clarke tale the “Nine Billion Names of God “ !
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:48:02 PM PDT
by
Reily
To: DannyTN
To: hapnHal
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posted on
04/25/2021 7:48:51 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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