Sentences with phrase «forming giant molecular clouds»

In my first project as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978, I measured the rotational velocities of star - forming giant molecular clouds in the outer part of the disk of our Milky Way galaxy.

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Jesusegun Alagbe The Solar System, formed 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant interstellar molecular cloud, comprises the Sun and eight planets, namely Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, magnetic fields inside M33's six most massive giant molecular clouds — large concentrations of dense gas and dust that give birth to stars — line up with the spiral arms, suggesting the magnetic fields helped create the huge clouds and that they regulate how the clouds fragment to form new stars.

Early, fast, turbulent mixing of gas within giant molecular clouds — the birthplaces of stars — means all stars formed from a single cloud bear the same unique chemical «tag» or «DNA fingerprint,» write astrophysicists.

Both low - and high - mass clusters form within larger complexes of gas and dust called giant molecular clouds.