Science News for Kids » Abell 222 http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org Publication of the Society for Science & the Public Wed, 22 May 2013 13:05:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 An invisible cosmic bridge http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/07/dark-matter-connects-cluster-of-galaxies/ http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/07/dark-matter-connects-cluster-of-galaxies/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:48:29 +0000 Stephen Ornes http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/?p=13362 It’s impossible to see with the naked eye, but astronomers say a bridge made of dark matter connects two galaxy clusters. This picture shows hot gas around and between the two clusters, Abell 222 (blob at top) and Abell 223 (bottom blob). The yellow is the hottest part of the gas, where the galaxies reside, and the red is cooler. Credit: ESA/ XMM-Newton/ EPIC/ ESO (J. Dietrich)/ SRON (N. Werner)/ MPE (A. Finoguenov)

Astronomers find strange stuff in the space between two clusters of galaxies]]> It’s impossible to see with the naked eye, but astronomers say a bridge made of dark matter connects two galaxy clusters. This picture shows hot gas around and between the two clusters, Abell 222 (blob at top) and Abell 223 (bottom blob). The yellow is the hottest part of the gas, where the galaxies reside, and the red is cooler. Credit: ESA/ XMM-Newton/ EPIC/ ESO (J. Dietrich)/ SRON (N. Werner)/ MPE (A. Finoguenov)

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