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Friday, 15 August 2014

RESCUE ALL THE HYDROGEN OVERPASSES !

RESCUE ALL THE HYDROGEN OVERPASSES !

Multiple Google translates, methinks. Choice highlights :

"Using a William E. Gordon Telescope, astronomers rescued a overpass of atomic hydrogen gas 2.6 million light years prolonged between galaxies 500 million light years away."
SAVE THE HYDROGEN ! SIGN THE PETITION !

"...Arecibo Observatory, a radio astronomy trickery of a US National Science Foundation..."
No comment.

" “Student impasse is really critical to us." "
God forbid we should actually teach them anything useful.

via Robert Minchin
http://techknowbutler.net/astronomers-discover-a-bridge-of-atomic-hydrogen-gas-2-6-million-light-years-long

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