Sentences with phrase «cold gas»

The signature of cold gas around the first stars is far stronger than expected.

As new member galaxies pass through the hot gas filling the cluster, cold gas in the galaxies is stripped away by the hot gas.

A galaxy can be thought of as a factory that produces stars from cold gas, with some galaxies being more productive than others.

In the two galaxies without cold gas, the hot material seems not to be cooling down at all, researchers said.

We however do not yet know whether galaxy mergers are also responsible for these, or whether they are formed by cold gas gradually falling into the galaxy.

Because cold gas is the fuel of star formation, it is imperative to understand how the physical conditions of the gas are changing throughout the universe's history.

Further, lithium has the special property of absorbing particles that hit it so that much less cold gas enters the plasma.

«You would expect to see a knot of cold gas at the center, where star formation happens.

«With CH +, we learn that energy is stored within vast galaxy - sized winds and ends up as turbulent motions in previously unseen reservoirs of cold gas surrounding the galaxy,» said Falgarone, who is lead author of the new paper.

Using its latest camera, Hubble shows a wider and sharper view of the Eagle Nebula's «Pillars of Creation,» immense columns of cold gas bathed in the ultraviolet light of nearby massive young stars.

«It is surprising how cold this gas is, at some 200 degrees below zero Celsius.

The area at the periphery of the sink is like interstellar space, where relatively cold gas between the stars sloshes weakly inward toward us.

The two dense peaks will continue to accrete from the surrounding cold gas reservoir over a period of ~ 105 years and will likely form a binary star system.

In the 1860s, physicist James Clerk Maxwell floated the idea of a hypothetical «neat - fingered demon» who could break the law by sorting hot and cold gas particles without expending energy, effortlessly flicking open a door between two compartments in a box.

They calculated that the filaments have their shape because they are made of dragged cold gas.

ALMA just snapped its first image, showing cold gas in the Antennae galaxies, a pair of colliding spiral galaxies 70 million light years away.

The theory suggests that clouds of cold gas condense out of the hot outflow as they expand and cool.

«It is the first time that we have seen outflowing cold gas moving at these large speeds at such large distances from the supermassive black hole,» said Claudia Cicone, a PhD student at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory and Kavli Institute for Cosmology, and lead author on the first of the two papers.

They found previously unseen reservoirs of cold gas rocked by turbulence from the galactic winds.

The experiment, developed by physicists from The Australian National University (ANU) and UNSW ADFA, created an extremely cold gas trapped in a laser beam, known as a Bose - Einstein condensate, replicating the experiment that won the 2001 Nobel Prize.

Image of a galaxy (center) with incoming cold gas flow, produced by rendering the gas distribution in a supercomputer simulation of a forming galaxy.

For example, the hot, harsh cluster environment might prevent the galaxy from continuing to accrete cold gas and form new stars; a process astronomers have named «starvation».

«As the surface of the bubble's shell expands outward, it slams into dense regions of cold gas on one side of the bubble.

They also calculated that a typical galaxy has 10 to 100 times more cold gas than astronomers had suspected.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — Using the world's largest telescopes, researchers discovered ancient cold gas clouds larger than galaxies in the early Universe.

By observing millimeter / submillimeter waves, we can investigate cold gas and dust in the universe.

The telescope's unique location gives researchers the perfect vantage point to study the freezing - cold gas along the plane of the Milky Way.

The Hövding secrets a tiny cold gas inflator in its innards.

The iconic photo of the so - called «Pillars of Creation» reveals never - before - seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching...

Using a combination of data gathered from powerful radio telescopes and supercomputer simulations, the teams found that a quasar spits out cold gas at speeds up to 2000 kilometres per second, and across distances of nearly 200,000 light years — much farther than has been observed before.

The two ellipticals without cold gas have incredibly active central black holes at their cores, which are accreting material at a breakneck pace and launching energetic jets out into space, researchers said.

«Once again, Herschel has detected something that was never seen before: significant amounts of cold gas in nearby red - and - dead galaxies,» said Göran Pilbratt, Herschel project scientist at ESA.

The iconic photo of the so - called «Pillars of Creation» reveals never - before - seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula.

We also know that the densest of these filaments fragment into compact pockets of cold gas that then collapse under their own gravity to form individual stars.

The radio jets that heat the core of the cluster's hot atmosphere also appear to stimulate the production of the cold gas required to sustain the AGN.

Powerful radio jets from the black hole - which normally suppress star formation - are stimulating the production of cold gas in the galaxy's extended halo of hot gas.

The wispy, fibre - like structures seen in this large image are long filaments of cold gas, only visible to telescopes working in the millimetre wavelength range.

Just take an interstellar molecular cloud — in essence, a big bag of cold gas and dust — shake it lightly and allow the ingredients to settle.

Sensitive to cold gas, the telescopes saw disks spattered with messy, asymmetrical blobs.

As the vortex loses energy, the vertical flow transports hot gases from above and cold gases from below the vortex toward its center, restoring part of its lost energy.

Another 46 dishes are being assembled at the low site, and when they are all in place, they should reveal other hidden regions of cold gas and dust where stars and planets form — as well as untold surprises.

Or it may be the result of the cold gas streaming onto the galaxy being rapidly compressed and heated up, preventing it from cooling down into star - forming clouds in the galaxy's center.

After the big bang, it took more than 300,000 years for cold gas to begin to amalgamate into the first stars and galaxies.

We wanted to see, if you took a realistic cloud of cold gas and hit it with a hot, fast - flowing, supernova - driven outflow, if you could accelerate that cold material to velocities like what are observed,» Robertson said.

Astronomers were once blind to the submillimeter glow from far - off clouds of cold gas and dust.