The New York Times has a story today about a new discovery concerning the age of the universe. What cracked me up is the phrasing here:

The galaxies then gathered in clusters, and the clusters gathered in long strings with humongous, almost empty, voids in between.

Heh. When did “humongous” become an official scientific term? Not that I’m complaining. I’ve long felt that “gazillion” ought to be given an official number — 10 to the 78th exponent, say? Or maybe 75th?