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Old 04-23-2012, 10:41 AM   #1489
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Not sure if this was posted yet, as it's fairly big news . . .

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-dark-th...-lack-sun.html

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From this new data they have calculated the mass of material in the vicinity of the Sun, in a volume four times larger than ever considered before.
"The amount of mass that we derive matches very well with what we see — stars, dust and gas — in the region around the Sun," says team leader Christian Moni Bidin (Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile). "But this leaves no room for the extra material — dark matter — that we were expecting. Our calculations show that it should have shown up very clearly in our measurements. But it was just not there!"
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