A team of astronomers has discovered what appears to be a grand exodus of more than 100 hydrogen clouds streaming away from the center of the Milky Way and heading into intergalactic space. This observation, made with the ...
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2018
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An Australian scientist has created the most detailed map ever of clouds of high-velocity gas in the universe around us.
Astronomy
Dec 4, 2017
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Ryo Ando, a graduate student of the University of Tokyo, and his colleagues have observed the galaxy NGC 253 and resolved its locations of star formation down to the scale of a molecular cloud, a star formation site with ...
Astronomy
Nov 6, 2017
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When astronomers peer into the universe, what they see often exceeds the limits of human understanding. Such is the case with low-mass galaxies—galaxies a fraction of the size of our own Milky Way.
Astronomy
Aug 10, 2017
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Studies of molecular clouds have revealed that star formation usually occurs in a two-step process. First, supersonic flows compress the clouds into dense filaments light-years long, after which gravity collapses the densest ...
Astronomy
Aug 7, 2017
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Swirling motions in clouds of cold, dense gas have given, for the first time, an active insight into how gravity creates the compact cores from which stars form in the interstellar medium. The results will be presented today, ...
Astronomy
Jul 5, 2017
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Astronomers have released an image of a vast filament of star-forming gas, 1200 light-years away, in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula.
Astronomy
Jun 15, 2017
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(Phys.org)—Telescope operators around the world have been notified that "Boyajian's star" (officially known as KIC 8462852) has dimmed again, offering space researchers a unique opportunity to study the star, which has ...
How the properties of clouds change in response to local pollution - mainly from coal burning and ship engines - has been more accurately determined.
Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2017
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A study of the internal sound waves created by starquakes, which make stars ring like a bell, has provided unprecedented insights into conditions in the turbulent gas clouds where stars were born 8 billion years ago.
Astronomy
Mar 14, 2017
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