<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2cc52798-c6c0-4121-8922-2b4736964e44/4B5ABAB6-6DA4-4591-8446-FED179FD4B32/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16903-new-cosmic-map-reveals-colossal-structures.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16903-new-cosmic-map-reveals-colossal-structures.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16903-new-cosmic-map-reveals-colossal-structures.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/CA727550-7ECA-4D7F-AD25-F191EE2079C7" alt="The new survey mapped the positions of more than 100,000 galaxies. The black strips are areas the survey did not cover because matter in our own galaxy blocked the view (Illustration: Chris Fluke/Swinburne University of Technology)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16903-new-cosmic-map-reveals-colossal-structures.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space">The new survey mapped the positions of more than 100,000 galaxies</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16903-new-cosmic-map-reveals-colossal-structures.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space">Enormous cosmic voids and giant concentrations of matter have been observed in a new galaxy survey</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16903-new-cosmic-map-reveals-colossal-structures.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space"><P>Called the <A target="ns" href="http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/6df/index.html">Six Degree Field Galaxy Survey</A> (6dFGS), the project scanned 41% of the sky, measuring positions and distances for 110,000 galaxies within 2 billion light years of Earth.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16903-new-cosmic-map-reveals-colossal-structures.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space">The biggest concentration of matter seen by the survey is a previously known giant pileup of galaxies called the <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8471-milky-way-feels-tug-of-largest-mass-in-the-universe.html">Shapley supercluster</A>, which lies about 600 million light years from Earth.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16903-new-cosmic-map-reveals-colossal-structures.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space">found some enormous voids – regions of space that are relatively empty, including one that is about 3.5 billion light years across.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16903-new-cosmic-map-reveals-colossal-structures.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space">But the finite time available since the big bang makes it difficult to explain a void as large as the one found</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16903-new-cosmic-map-reveals-colossal-structures.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=space">It's not easy to make voids that large in any of the current models of large scale structure formation</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4B5ABAB6-6DA4-4591-8446-FED179FD4B32/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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