From: Tony Williams 

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

750 < 300,000

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Tony

>
> "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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