News tagged with cloud formation

Baby galaxies grew up quickly

Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research from the Niels Bohr Institute. This means that already in the early history of ...

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created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 67 | with audio podcast

Hubble observes a dwarf galaxy with a bright nebula

(Phys.org) -- The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made detailed observations of the dwarf galaxy NGC 2366. While it lacks the elegant spiral arms of many larger galaxies, NGC 2366 is home to a bright, ...

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created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists use new method to zero in on source of tropical clouds

(Phys.org) -- High above the Earth, clouds too thin to see cover the tropics. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found a creative technique to identify the clouds' origins. Using several ...

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created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Image: Hubble peeks inside a stellar cloud

(Phys.org) -- These bright stars shining through what looks like a haze in the night sky are part of a young stellar grouping in one of the largest known star formation regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

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created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Measuring magnetic fields

(Phys.org) -- Polarized light is a familiar phenomenon, as people who prefer polarized sunglasses can testify. The electric field in a beam of light can vibrate either left-right or up-down, and the scattering ...

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created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Declining sea ice to lead to cloudier Arctic: study

Arctic sea ice has been declining over the past several decades as global climate has warmed. In fact, sea ice has declined more quickly than many models predicted, indicating that climate models may not be correctly representing ...

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created Mar 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A planetary system from the early Universe

A group of European astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras, 13 billion years ago. The system consists of the star HIP 11952 ...

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created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Firestorm of star birth in Galaxy Centaurus A

(PhysOrg.com) -- Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A.

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created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

APEX turns its eye to dark clouds in Taurus

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new image from the APEX (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment) telescope in Chile shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long. In it, newborn stars are hidden, and dense ...

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created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New climate-cooling molecule found

Scientists have succeeded in detecting and analyzing a new atmospheric molecule whose existence has long been suspected but never proved.

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created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Herschel and Spitzer see nearby galaxies' stardust

(PhysOrg.com) -- The cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with important NASA contributions; ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A universal law for star formation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Star formation is studied by astronomers not only because it produces new stars and planetary systems. It also generates copious amounts of ultraviolet light that heats dust which in turn ...

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created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Image: Active Galaxy Centaurus A

(PhysOrg.com) -- Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A.

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created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A dance of aerosols: Study shows plant-sourced particles pick and choose their partners

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the complex molecular mixer that is the atmosphere, some molecules dance with others and some are wallflowers, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Using a ...

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created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Astronomers look to neighboring galaxy for star formation insight

An international team of astronomers has mapped in detail the star-birthing regions of the nearest star-forming galaxy to our own, a step toward understanding the conditions surrounding star creation.

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created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast