Applying the Chandrasekhar - Fermi method, the magnetic field strength is roughly estimated to be a few x 100 microgauss, suggesting that
the filamentary cloud is close to magnetically critical as a whole.
We present results of near - infrared (JHKs) polarization observations toward
the filamentary cloud.
Williams, of Cardiff University, explains: «We've known for some time that dusty,
filamentary cloud structures are ubiquitous in the Milky Way's interstellar medium.
Not exact matches
Patches of dust block out the light as it travels towards us, preventing us from seeing the stars behind it, and smaller tendrils of dust create the dark
filamentary structures within the
clouds.
Nor had anyone been able to observe that stellar systems develop from parts of a
filamentary gas
cloud until now: «At first, we thought that the fragments wouldn't interact with each other.»
The images show
filamentary and cumulus
clouds, along with a good view of the planet's giant hurricane (middle).
«I was pretty struck by the prevalence of the
filamentary type of
clouds,» he says.
Abstract: The influence of magnetic fields (B - fields) in the formation and evolution of bipolar bubbles, due to the expanding ionization fronts (I - fronts) driven by the Hii regions that are formed and embedded in
filamentary molecular
clouds, has not been well - studied yet.
In addition to the anisotropic expansion of I - fronts into a filament, B - fields are expected to introduce an additional anisotropic press... ▽ More The influence of magnetic fields (B - fields) in the formation and evolution of bipolar bubbles, due to the expanding ionization fronts (I - fronts) driven by the Hii regions that are formed and embedded in
filamentary molecular
clouds, has not been well - studied yet.
What the GBT was able to pin down was a population of 20 discrete neutral hydrogen
clouds, together with an extended
filamentary component, which, the astronomers believe, are both associated with Andromeda.