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Most of the Universe is missing. It’s not just the form of dark energy and dark matter that’s unknown; the present whereabouts of half of the ‘normal’ matter in the Universe remains something of a mystery. Recently, however, astronomers have discovered hints of the presence of a cosmic web – and it seems that this web is where the missing matter resides. The key to this discovery has been the ultraviolet telescope.
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Webb, S. (2012). The cosmic-wide web. In: New Eyes on the Universe. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2194-8_10
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