Monday, November 9, 2009

Death and the Cosmos

Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:53 PM

This story on Science News...

A gigantic galactic graveyard lurks in the distant universe, and the death toll is growing.

New observations establish a supercluster centered on the cluster CL0016+16 as the largest galactic congregation ever found, astronomers report in Astronomy & Astrophysics. The supercluster extends even farther than previously thought, and it’s drawing in more and more galaxies.

...was made for this tune by Burial:

The largest known galactic congregation is bigger than astronomers thought—and its inhabitants are all dead or dying...

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"Where galaxies go to die?" Galactic Burial.

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