From: "Geo" 

Isn't that faster than light (300,000 k/s?)


"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:448db9a4{at}w3.nls.net...
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/12/great_balls_of_fire/
>
> "Astronomers have identified a massive comet-like structure - spanning a
> whopping three million light years - that is tearing through a distant
> galaxy cluster at more than 750 kilometres a second.
>
> Yes, you read that right. A great ball of fiery gas*, some five thousand
> million times the size of the solar system. Fortunately, it isn't
> anywhere near Earth. The flaming gas-ball is in the Abell 3266 galaxy
> cluster, even more millions of light years away from us than it is
across."
>
> Adam

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