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Dark Matter: Crash Course Astronomy #41

Welcome to school without the classroom! Join host Phil Plait and discover everything there is to know about the cosmos.

Dark Matter: Crash Course Astronomy #41

Season 1 Episode 41 | 11m 45s

Today on Crash Course Astronomy, Phil dives into some very dark matters. The stuff we can actually observe in the universe isn’t all there is. Galaxies and other large structures in the universe are created and shifted by a force we detect mostly indirectly, by observing its impact: DARK MATTER.

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