NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite has given astronomers their best glimpse yet at the ghostly cobweb of helium gas left over from the big bang, which underlies the ...
HD 41566 is a deeply weird star. It’s the exposed helium core of what was once a much larger, more massive star, and it glows with the light of the electrically-charged helium it’s blasting out into ...
Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are energetic particles traveling across the Galaxy as high-energy beams, and are a unique probe to explore the astrophysical particle accelerators and the interstellar ...
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The First Molecule in the Universe That Helped Make the Earliest Stars Was Just Recreated
It's safe to say that our existence wouldn't be possible without molecules. Even beyond all the matter on Earth, molecules are what shaped the Universe into what it is today. But what was the first ...
Astronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our sun millions of years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
DR. Houstoun has now remedied one rather serious defect in his well-known “Treatise on Light,” namely, the out-of-date character of the section dealing with spectral series. That some modification was ...
IN his letter to NATURE of Oct. 1, p. 473. Mr. I. S. Bowen has made the important suggestion that several of the chief lines in the spectra of gaseous nebulæ may be due to what spectroscopists have ...
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