Sentences with phrase «with giant molecular clouds»

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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.

The mechanism that prevents giant molecular clouds from collapsing — whatever it may be — has a lot to do with why we exist in the first place.

By combining these with observations from Planck, we can now obtain a link to the large - scale structures of giant molecular clouds,» remarks Timea Csengeri from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), Bonn, Germany, who led the work of combining the APEX and Planck data.

IC342 is a face - on weakly barred spiral galaxy with a young nuclear star cluster surrounded by several giant molecular clouds.

This image shows Vela - C, a giant molecular cloud where stars are being born, as viewed at far - infrared wavelengths with ESA's Herschel Space...