Giant Energetic Bubbles Adorn the Milky Way

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Giant Energetic Bubbles Adorn the Milky Way

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Apr 26, 2011

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Two 30,000 light-year-long blobs called Fermi bubbles have been discovered on either side of our galactic plane. John Matson reports

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Apr 26, 2011

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Giant Energetic Bubbles Adorn the Milky Way

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