And the team that found it believes the vast, bizarre structure could be some form of cosmic particle accelerator.

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It is these photons, now massively red-shifted, that form the cosmic microwave background.

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Meanwhile, groups in Italy and Japan are looking for monopoles that might be arriving in the form of cosmic rays.

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Turner says it's hard enough for scientists to understand how the supposedly empty vacuum of space can be suffused with some form of cosmic energy.

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Here recently completed lives are examined and evaluated, in a formal proceeding something like a trial: if the defendant wins the case, he moves up the cosmic ladder to a higher form of consciousness.

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Jimmy Chanos normally weighs in with some form of esoteric, cosmic bearishness.

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"Our theories of dark matter say that it should form a giant intricate cosmic web and that's exactly what we see in this data, a cosmic web that's housing the galaxies that we can see, " Dr Heymans told BBC News.

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