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Article: Strange But True: Longest shadow surprises the Sun watchers SOLAR SYSTEM
- Article from:
- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- July 4, 1999
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IT WAS only a small, dark blob on a picture taken from a
spacecraft, but it transfixed astronomers. The image should have
been a perfect blue, a record of the blank expanses of space at the
heart of the solar system. But there, in the top left-hand corner,
was an inexplicable black stain.
As the scientists displayed their pictures last week they said
they had been expecting to see white, glowing blobs scattered across
their ultraviolet photographs of the sky: they had an explanation
ready for those. But a black patch, which shifted slightly with each
photograph in the sequence was definitely not expected. The whole
region is supposedly bathed in ultraviolet light and here, in
effect,
was a ...