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The space between galaxies has long been considered a dead area. Single rogue stars may pop stars may pop up here or there, but the majority of this cosmic backward was considered empty by astronomers. But now, a paper from astronomers at various European and California institutions has found a trail of stars flowing between galaxies in a cluster.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n They\u2019re calling it the Giant Coma Stream, after the Coma Cluster of galaxies where it originates. Observing this cluster back in 1933, Fritz Zwicky, a Swiss astronomer, noticed that the galaxies in the cluster were moving too fast to be caused by only ordinary matter. The \u201cdunkele Materie\u201d (dark matter) that he proposed back then is still our best guess as to what is causing these galaxies to move so fast, even if we still don\u2019t entirely understand what that means.<\/p>\n There were plenty of galaxies for Zwicky and the modern-day astronomers to look at. The Coma Cluster contains over a thousand cataloged galaxies and is about 300 million light-years away in the Coma Berenices constellation. It remains a favor of amateur astronomers because some of its brighter galaxies can seen with relatively small amateur telescopes.<\/p>\n \n