© Copyright 2011, Jay Alfred
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Cover photograph: This shows the visible Earth sitting inside an invisible halo of dark matter particles. The halo has been given false colours and is not drawn to scale. It serves only for general illustrative purposes and does not represent the actual halo except in a general way.