6/13/2006

Astronomers have spotted a huge cloud of fiery gas speeding through a distant cluster of galaxies. They say it is the biggest object of its kind ever seen.

The gas ball contains more matter than a 1,000 billion Suns, and is plunging through the Abell 3266 cluster of galaxies at about 750 kilometres per second. The fireball is about 3 million light years across, roughly 5 billion times the diameter of the Solar System, and reaches temperatures of tens of millions of degrees.


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I love astronomy and cosmology. But everything's always gotta be "1000 billion" and "3 million light years". It makes me think of Cordelia in Buffy 1.3: "Okay, enough with the hyperbole already."

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