Transcript: Scientists Illuminate the Nature of Dark Matter

STEVE INSKEEP
Morning Edition (NPR)
02-09-2006
Scientists Illuminate the Nature of Dark Matter

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Astronomers say they have some intriguing new clues about one of the biggest mysteries of the universe. More than twenty years ago, scientists discovered that most of the matter in the universe is not made up of ordinary atoms, it's something invisible called dark matter.

New observations of nearby galaxies suggest that dark matter only comes in enormous clumps of particles that race through space faster than fighter jets. NPR's Richard Harris has the story.

RICHARD HARRIS reporting:

Of all the big mysteries in the universe, dark ...

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