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Goodness gracious, great ball of fire

A vast eructation hurtles through distant space.

Astronomers have spotted a huge cloud of fiery gas speeding through a distant cluster of galaxies. They say it is the biggest object of its kind ever seen.

The gas ball contains more matter than a 1,000 billion Suns, and is plunging through the Abell 3266 cluster of galaxies at about 750 kilometres per second.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on June 13, 2006
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