Sentences with phrase «filamentary gas»
«I wonder if we can indeed use this technique to see the emission of filamentary gas in the cosmic web.
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«Filamentary gas is very difficult to detect,» Tanimura says.
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.»
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The image shows a fine web of filamentary «bicycle - spoke» features embedded in the colorful red and blue ring of gas.
The map provides a tantalizing glimpse of giant filamentary structures extending across millions of light - years, and paves the way for more extensive studies that will reveal not only the structure of the cosmic web, but also details of its function — the ways that pristine gas is funneled along the web into galaxies, providing the raw material for the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.
Combining all of the measurements across the entire field of view allowed the team a tantalizing glimpse of giant filamentary structures extending across millions of light - years, and paves the way for more extensive studies that will reveal not only the structure of the cosmic web, but also details of its function — the ways that pristine gas is funneled along the web into galaxies, providing the raw material for the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.
This is a very active area of research, and we hope to someday see gas as it falls into these more normal galaxies along these filamentary streams.
Galaxies are actually believed to draw in gas that resides along filamentary strings.