Astronomers discover new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way
Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...
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Astronomers Spot a New Giant Molecular Cloud in the Milky Way, 23,000 Light Years Away
Astronomers have discovered a new giant molecular cloud (GMC) in the Milky Way, a finding that has expanded our understanding ...
Sagittarius C: Webb provides closest look yet at one of Milky Way's most extreme environments
Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...
Stellar Time Machine: Rare Particle Decay Sheds Light on the Sun’s Mysterious Origins
New experiments on thallium decay have helped determine the Sun formed over 10–20 million years, improving stellar ...
Water Formed Much Sooner After the Big Bang Than We Thought, Scientists Say—Which May Mean Life Did, Too
Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.
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"We've Been Wrong For A Long Time": Protoplanetary Disks Are Much Smaller Than We Thought
The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.
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Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy (photo)
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
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Mysterious interstellar icy objects
Additionally, if a previously undetected molecular cloud were present in the direction of these objects, it would appear as spatially extended gas emissions in carbon monoxide. However ...
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This NASA Mission Could Reveal Where The Building Blocks Of Life Originated
The mission will reveal how much ice is present in a given molecular cloud, giving scientists more information about how life's most essential ingredient of water moves through the universe.