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Old 08-03-2012, 09:36 PM   #6
Buyingtime

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> The cloud is estimated to be three times the mass of Earth

Amazing that they can see this at all at this distance. That's a trivial amount of mass, and to see it they would have to peer through umpteen other clouds of gas and dust that are between us and the galactic centre.
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