Friday, June 18, 2010

NASA discovers crack in the middle of the Milky Way

imageFor those of you following this year’s season of Doctor Who, this picture of the day makes for some rather disturbing viewing. It appears that the constellation Sagittarius is featuring a huge stellar bit of graffiti.

And it looks rather like the crack in the Universe that’s been following Matt Smith and Karen Gillan around this year’s story.

So what is this crack? it’s “the core of a thick, sooty cloud large enough to swallow dozens of solar systems and may be harboring beastly stars in the process of forming.”

That’s ominous – a star devouring gap in the middle of the night sky…

via NASA discover Doctor Who's crack in the middle of the Milky Way | The Daily Dust | UK News | Good News.

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