MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)– Astronomers have actually found the closest recognized great void to Earth, simply 1,600 light-years away.
Scientists reported Friday that this great void is 10 times more huge than our sun. And it’s 3 times closer than the previous record-holder.
It was recognized by observing the movement of its buddy star, which orbits the great void at about the very same range as Earth orbits the sun.
The great void was at first determined utilizing the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft, stated Kareem El-Badry of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
El-Badry and his group followed up with the International Gemini Observatory in Hawaii to verify their findings, which were released in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The scientists are un