This is what this afternoon's masthead is pointing to.
We are for the first time directly overlaying wide field maps -- of hundreds of thousands of galaxies -- spanning many million of light years edge-to-edge, with what is clearly the "super structural / glue elements" of so-called "dark matter". Here's all that -- and a bit, from JPL:
. . .Scientists using data from NASA’s [JWST] have made one of the most detailed, high-resolution maps of dark matter ever produced. It shows how the invisible, ghostly material overlaps and intertwines with “regular” matter, the stuff that makes up stars, galaxies, and everything we can see.
Published Monday, Jan. 26, in Nature Astronomy, the map builds on previous research to provide additional confirmation and new details about how dark matter has shaped the universe on the largest scales -- galaxy clusters millions of light-years across -- that ultimately give rise to galaxies, stars, and planets like Earth.
“This is the largest dark matter map we’ve made with [JWST], and it’s twice as sharp as any dark matter map made by other observatories,” said Diana Scognamiglio, lead author of the paper and an astrophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “Previously, we were looking at a blurry picture of dark matter. Now we’re seeing the invisible scaffolding of the universe in stunning detail, thanks to [JWST]’s incredible resolution. . . .”
That's cool -- and only ever-so-slightly darkly so. Onward -- I've had enough of the dystopian Trump-World news for today.
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