New observations have confirmed a key step in the process of star formation: a rotating "cosmic wind" made of molecules, which is vitally important for collapsing gas clouds to contract sufficiently so as to form a hot, dense ...
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Oct 19, 2023
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A team of international scientists from the U.S., France, Germany, and Ethiopia recently published cutting-edge climate research on how thunderstorms can "clump" together and how that influences the Earth's climate. This ...
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Oct 2, 2023
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As part of the international CLOUD project at the nuclear research center CERN, researchers at PSI have identified so-called sesquiterpenes—gaseous hydrocarbons that are released by plants—as being a major factor in cloud ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2023
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The Southern Ocean: How does this body of water and its relationship with clouds contribute to the world's changing climate?
Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2023
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The Tarantula Nebula is a star formation region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Tarantula is about 160,000 light-years away and is highly luminous for a non-stellar object. It's the brightest and largest star formation ...
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Jun 13, 2023
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A team of physicists have discovered that the environment of a molecular cloud in interstellar space can support the existence of fatty acids, a key component of life on Earth.
Astronomy
May 19, 2023
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All stars are born from the collapse of clouds of dust and gas. But triggering star formation is a tricky process, because these gas clouds can just hang out doing nothing for billions of years. A pair of researchers have ...
Astronomy
Apr 11, 2023
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Indonesia's Mount Merapi erupted Saturday with avalanches of searing gas clouds and lava, forcing authorities to halt tourism and mining activities on the slopes of the country's most active volcano.
Environment
Mar 12, 2023
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Stars are formed by molecular gas and dust coalescing in space. These molecular gases are so dilute and cold that they are invisible to the human eye, but they do emit faint radio waves that can be observed by radio telescopes.
Astronomy
Mar 1, 2023
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Two decades of monitoring from W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaiʻi reveals a peculiar cloud dubbed X7 being pulled apart as it accelerates toward the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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