Universe

COSMOS Video News Release
For the first time ever, astronomers have been creating a three—dimensional map of how the dark matter is distributed across the Universe. An international team of scientists, among them groups from Marseille, the Max-Planck Institutes and Paris have been using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The results are published in nature online of 8 January 2007, and at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. This Video News Release discussed this discovery. More on: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0701.html

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A mind blowing animation showing the relative size of planets and stars in our universe.

Background music is from the song “Such Great Heights” by “The Postal Service”.

Original animation was made by http://www.cycomedia.net, this version was found on http://www.transbuddha.com

Duration : 0:1:26

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Does Dark Matter theory really help scientists discover more about space? Meet one of the world’s biggest sceptics and hear his views on why he thinks dark matter doesn’t exist. Great clip from BBC show ‘Most of Our Universe is Missing’.

Duration : 0:2:48

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