The space of night is infinite, The blackness and emptiness Crossed only by thin bright fences Of logic
— Kenneth Rexroth "Theory of Numbers"
Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic "stuff" called dark matter which makes up 23% of the Universe, yet is invisible to our eyes.
(May 16) - Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun -- an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.
See more:
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/astronomers-baffled-by-bizarre-star/2008051...
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