News tagged with interstellar clouds
Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic'
Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Even some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas.
Component of mothballs is present in deep-space clouds
Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Interstellar clouds, drifting through the unimaginable vastness of space, may be the stuff dreams are made of. But it turns out there's an unexpectedly strange component in those clouds, and it's not dreams ...
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Researcher Presents Origin-Of-Life Theory for Young Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Some of the elements necessary to support life on Earth are widely known - oxygen, carbon and water, to name a few. Just as important in the existence of life as any other component is the presence of adenine, an essential ...
Warped debris disks around stars are blowin' in the wind (w/ Video)
Aug 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes. Now, a team led by John Debes at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...
Researcher presents origin-of-life theory for young Earth, supports life on other planets
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2007 |
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Some of the elements necessary to support life on Earth are widely known – oxygen, carbon and water, to name a few. Just as important in the existence of life as any other component is the presence of adenine, an essential ...
Voyager makes an interstellar discovery
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 26, 2009 |
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The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.
Mining for Molecules in the Milky Way
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to go prospecting in a rich molecular cloud in our Milky Way Galaxy. They seek to discover new, complex molecules in interstellar space ...
New organic molecule in space
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 26, 2008 |
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The "Large Molecule Heimat" is a very dense, hot gas clump within the star forming region Sagittarius B2. In this source of only 0,3 light-year diameter, which is heated by a deeply embedded newly formed star, ...
Scientists solve cosmological puzzle
Nov 29, 2007 |
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Researchers using supercomputer simulations have exposed a very violent and critical relationship between interstellar gas and dark matter when galaxies are born – one that has been largely ignored by the ...
A molecular thermometer for the distant universe
May 13, 2008 |
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Astronomers have made use of ESO’s Very Large Telescope to detect for the first time in the ultraviolet the carbon monoxide molecule in a galaxy located almost 11 billion light-years away, a feat that had ...
Scientists Reproduce a Building Block of Life in Laboratory
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.
Birth of a star predicted
Jun 09, 2009 |
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The astrophysicist João Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Bürkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that "the inevitable future of the starless ...
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