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XMM-Newton Finds Missing Intergalactic Material

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June 20, 2018

Chart representing components of our cosmos
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The mysterious dark matter and dark energy make up about 25 and 70 percent of our cosmos respectively, and ordinary matter, which makes up everthing we see, including galaxies, stars and planets - amounts to only about five percent. 

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    XMM-Newton Finds Missing Intergalactic Material

    After a nearly 20-year-long game of cosmic hide-and-seek, astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory have finally found evidence of hot, diffuse gas permeating the cosmos, closing a puzzling gap in the overall budget of ‘normal’ matter in the Universe. 
    • June 20, 2018
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    • Astrophysical Observatory
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