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Samuel Ting, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Nobel laureate particle physicist, said Wednesday that his $1.6 billion cosmic ray experiment on the International Space Station had found evidence of “new physical phenomena” that could represent dark matter, the mysterious stuff that serves as the gravitational foundation for galaxies and whose identification would rewrite some of the laws of physics.
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From atoms to galaxies: a visualisation of the observable universe
This is a magnificent animation which will show you how big Texas is compared to Pluto or how small the Sun is compared to the biggest known star, Canis Major.