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The picture in the article is misleading. It's an image of the Barnard 68 molecular cloud that has nothing to do with Boötes void. Also, the existence of the v

• jacquesm 4y ago
  It says so in the first line: "Gas cloud Barnard 68 gives us an idea of what a space void might look like if we could peer through the stars at one."
  • teraflop 4y ago
    But that statement itself is very misleading, because it's using an opaque gas cloud as an illustration of an empty, transparent region of space.
• hinkley 4y ago
  A real picture of The Void is not so void. I am disappointed and my day is ruined.
• yummybear 4y ago
  The entire article and the website seems kind of autogenerated
  • swayvil 4y ago
    A "this website doesn't exist" situation maybe. It makes sense. Who needs reality when dreams will suffice?
  • pvg 4y ago
    The article is probably machine-translated from Spanish Located near the constellation of Boötes (or the Boyero) https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootes https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0-pHnykC9s&t=11s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0-pHnykC9s&t=11s
• dougmwne 4y ago
  Here’s a much better illustration. There are many voids, just as there are many superclusters. They are one of the large scale structures in the universe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boötes_void#/media/File%3AGalaxy_superclusters_and_galaxy_voids.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boötes_void#/media/File%3AGa...
• sxcurry 4y ago
  Also the article is garbled and gibberish.