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“The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter (www.esa.int)
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[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

yeah it's mostly hydrogen but it wont burn cuz there's no oxygen in space lol. the 10 million degrees isn't a typo - it's actually a super-hot plasma at that point, not really a gas anymore. our sun's core is around 15 million degrees for comparision.