“Scientist says huge clumps of dark matter may lie just beyond the Moon”

“Scientist says huge clumps of dark matter may lie just beyond the Moon” December 1, 2015

 

Der Mond
The Moon
(Wikimedia Commons; click to enlarge)

 

Common sense isn’t a reliable guide to the structure of the cosmos.  Things are much, much more interesting than that:

 

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/scientist-says-huge-clumps-of-dark-matter-may-lie-just-beyond-the-moon/

 

Of course, in the image above the Moon appears to be surrounded by dark matter.  Why didn’t we notice that before?

 

 


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