Sentences with phrase «hot ionised gas»
BURPS of hot ionised gas from the sun can knock out satellites and power grids when they hit Earth (New Scientist, 21 March, p 31).
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H II regions like RCW 106 are clouds of hydrogen gas that are being ionised by the intense starlight of scorching - hot, young stars, causing them to glow and display weird and wonderful shapes.
In planetary nebulae, thought to be the evolved stage of pre-planetary nebula, the core is exposed and the hotter radiation it emits ionises the gas in the now weaker jets, which in turn glow.