Sentences with phrase «clouds near the center of our galaxy»
For this to occur, outside forces would have to compress the gas clouds near the center of our galaxy to overcome the violent nature of the region and allow gravity to take over and form stars.
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Over the next several years, new infrared measurements showed that much of the gas and clouds and even entire stars nearest the center weren't simply rotating with the rest of the galaxy.
The vast gas and dust cloud Sagittarius B2 — which sits near Sagittarius A * at the center of our galaxy — contains traces of propylene oxide.
In this discovery, reported by Caltech researchers in June, radio telescopes picked up faint traces of the organic compound propylene oxide in a vast cloud of gas and dust called Sagittarius B2, which is near the center of our galaxy.
«Even though the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of our nearest galactic companions, we expect it should share some uncanny chemical similarity with distant, young galaxies from the early universe,» said Marta Sewiło, an astronomer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.