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Thursday 7 August 2014

Giant gas streams in the mass media

More detailed article about the giant gas stream now on Vice. Press releases are cool.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/colliding-galaxies-left-a-stream-of-gas-26-million-light-years-long
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