Dennis Overbye (NYT): Astronomers Chart the Unseen Between the Stars

[Dudley_DUright]

There is more than one way to see the universe, and some of them were featured this month in Sydney, Australia, where the world's astronomers gathered for the triennial meeting of the International Astronomical Union.

Once restricted to looking at the pearly lights of stars, astronomers have increasingly sought to look for what they cannot see in the darkness between the stars.

Some have used a chunk of Antarctica as their telescope to map the rain of high-energy particles from the cosmos.

Others have used galaxies themselves as lenses to limn invisible clouds of dark matter that envelop the cosmos.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/science/space/29COSM.html?hp

[Terwilliger]

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