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ZME Science on MSNThe Solar System Passed Through a Massive Cosmic Wave Millions of Years Ago — And This May Have Cooled EarthThe Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...
Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...
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Interesting Engineering on MSNUnseen giant molecular cloud detected 23,000 light-years away in the Milky WayAstronomers have detected a previously unknown giant molecular cloud (GMC) at the midpoint of the Galactic Bar Dust Lanes ...
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From interstellar dust to life beyond Earth: Why scientists can't wait NASA's new SPHEREx space telescopeBy mapping the entire sky, the $488 million mission may also reveal the distribution and chemistry of interstellar dust, which is not very well understood despite being ubiquitous in nearly every ...
Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...
Beijing, March 14 (IANS): An international of team astronomers has unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the ...
A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water, a key ...
The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...
In cold, dense, and shielded regions of the galaxy, atoms and molecules adhere to the surfaces of submicron-sized solid particles (dust), leading to the formation of interstellar ices. This ...
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