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The Hubble Space Telescope has detected over 6000 cometary globules in the Helix planetary nebula (the closest one to Earth). They have the mass of the Earth, and are separated from each other by about 10^14 meters (1000 times the distance to the sun). Thus they are possibly the hydrogenous planetoids predicted by the Gibson 1996 gravitational instability theory, and observed by Schild 1996, as the dominant baryonic (ordinary proton and neutron) dark matter component of the inner halo of galaxies. The wakes of the comets all point toward the central dying star a light year away (10^16 m), which is now at 100,000 K (from 6000 K like the sun) and flooding its surroundings with powerful radiation that brings these "Neptunes" out of the dark by evaporating their frozen primordial hydrogen-helium outer layers to produce the 10^13 m (solar system out to Pluto) protective cocoons. Their mass is a fossil of the weak or non-turbulent hydrodynamic state existing in the primordial gas as it emerged from the plasma epoch, as indicated by the CMBR observations.
astro-ph/9904260, astro-ph/9904317

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