Cobwebs Of Space: Discovery and Interpretation Of Interstellar Dust Filaments
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | Cobwebs Of Space: Discovery and Interpretation Of Interstellar Dust Filaments |
| Author(s) | Harry Hamlin Ricker |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2019-05-31 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | dark matter, interstellar dust, astronomy |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"Cobwebs Of Space: Discovery and Interpretation Of Interstellar Dust Filaments" is an article by Harry Hamlin Ricker published on 31 May 2019 on Beyond Mainstream.
Ricker summarises a paper he wrote in the early 1980s, submitted to an astronomy journal and rejected, describing long narrow filaments of interstellar dust that crisscross space and overlie the view of distant objects like a cobweb. He presents them as a real form of obscuring matter, as elusive as the dark matter of cosmology but, in his view, unlike it in actually existing, and notes that image processing has since made such features far easier to bring out.