Sentences with phrase «giant gas clouds»

Those other processes include collisions of giant gas clouds within galaxies, internal instabilities, tidal interactions during flybys of smaller galaxies, and minor mergers that don't produce conspicuous distortions.

Hydrogen molecules aren't the best coolant, but they are good enough to enable giant gas clouds, millions of times as massive as the sun, to fall in on themselves.

The scientists analyzed radio emission from Carbon Monoxide (CO) molecules in giant gas clouds along M51's spiral arms.

Impey and Bothun think LSB galaxies like Malin 1 were born of giant gas clouds that just happened to be much more diffuse than the clouds that gave rise to normal galaxies.

They will have been stripped from the cluster as it passed by a giant gas cloud or had a close encounter with a neighbouring cluster, or even simply drifted away.

A UNSW - led team has used a telescope in Antarctica to identify a giant gas cloud in our galaxy which appears to be in an early stage of formation.

Using a telescope installed at the driest place on earth — Ridge A in Antarctica — a UNSW - led team of researchers has identified a giant gas cloud which appears to be in an early stage of formation.