Sentences with phrase «ionize gas atoms»
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«The gas which forms the major part of the insterstellar medium,» explains Jorge García Rojas, a researcher at the IAC who is the first author on the paper «can be observed because its atoms are ionized by the photons emitted by the hot stars embedded inside it (which can either very massive stars, or white dwarfs, which are also very hot).
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As our solar system slowly orbits around the galactic center, the sun's ultraviolet radiation carves out an egg - shaped region of ionized hydrogen atoms surrounded by neutral hydrogen gas.
The gas in the accretion disk is hot enough for some of its atoms to lose electrons and become ionized — that is, to take on a positive electric charge.
Another way is also possible: At a temperature of millions of degrees, the gas in the corona is highly ionized, that is, electrons are stripped off neutral atoms and move freely.
Scientists hypothesize that the missing atoms lie in diffuse clouds of highly ionized gas stretching between the galaxies.
Yet in strongly shocked gases, the atoms are ionized into electrons and ions.