... unlikely, the mystery of Ceres’ bright spots drives home the point that even as we contemplate the possibility of interstellar voyages , our own solar system is still in many ways uncharted territory for humanity. And it’s not as if Ceres...
....” Cosmic wind is something else entirely. We have known about cosmic winds for a while. They can sweep interstellar material from a galaxy, thus preventing the formation of future stars. How such processes happen isn’t often...
... into a blast wave. The resulting coasting outflow forms external shocks due to interaction with the interstellar medium, producing synchrotron emission – a type of non-thermal radiation generated by charged particles spiralling around magnetic...
... the mechanisms involved in these explosive but rare events, supernovae also play a significant role in enriching the interstellar medium with higher mass elements such as iron. Observations such as these can thus allows researchers to better...
... the universe (at essentially the speed of light) without interference as they are not absorbed by intervening matter or deflected by interstellar magnetic fields. This makes them ideal candidates in which to study processes that can otherwise not...
...at higher temperatures than the amorphous grains. These transmission electron microscope (TEM) images reveal that one interstellar grain consists of a small crystalline enstatite core within a non-crystalline (amorphous) silicate of similar elemental...