Although Italian by birth, maritime explorer Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the Americas under the Spanish emperorâs name. During his first voyage, he led three Spanish galleons, the NiÃ±a, Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Instead of the general notion that a void is a region of space with a low cosmic mean density; a hole in the distribution of galaxies, it defines voids to be regions in which matter is escaping; which corresponds to the Dark Energy equation of state, w.
astronomy a diffuse cloud of particles and gases mainly hydrogen that is visible either as a hazy patch of light either an emission or a reflection nebula or an irregular dark region against a brighter background dark nebula compare planetary nebula