An international team led by a researcher from Hiroshima University has succeeded in revealing the detailed structure of
a massive ionized gas outflow streaming from the starburst galaxy NGC 6240.
Not exact matches
«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).
Clusters of galaxies are large self - gravitating systems in which galaxies and
ionized gas are bound by
massive amounts of dark matter.
«The UV radiation from a
massive star will
ionize and heat up disks of
gas surrounding nearby low - mass stars,» Bally says.
Massive stars emit a large amount of ultraviolet radiation that destroys the molecules and dust surrounding the star and creates
ionized gas, which in turn impedes the star's growth process.
But here's what we do know: The sun is a
massive object comprised of intensely hot,
ionized gases.
It contains areas of
massive H II emission, large clouds of partly
ionized gas which show evidence of recent star forming activity.