Astronomers have fully tallied where the universe’s normal matter actually is, and most of it isn’t in galaxies.

It’s spread through the intergalactic “cosmic web,” solving a long-standing mystery 💫

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Most normal matter in the universe isn’t found in planets, stars or galaxies – an astronomer explains where it’s distributed

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space as tiny particles.

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