On the passing of the test act in 1681 he refused to take the required oath except with a reservation.
Located in the Coma Cluster, about 300 million light years away from Earth, the orb is actually a distant view of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4889. At the center of that galaxy lies a sleeping giant: a supermassive black hole that is 21 billion times the mass of our sun. The size of a black hole can be estimated by its event horizon, or the distance from the center of the black hole at which nothing can escape its gravitational grasp.
Largest-ever Ozone Hole over Antarctica. A NASA instrument has detected an Antarctic ozone hole (what scientists call an ozone depletion area) that is three times larger than the entire land mass of the United Statesâthe largest such area ever observed. The hole expanded to a record size of approximately 11 million square miles (28.3 million square kilometers) on Sept. 3, 2000. The previous record was approximately 10.5 million square miles (27.2 million square km) on Sept. 19, 1998. The ozone hole's size currently has ...