Magnetic 'force field' shields giant gas cloud during collision with Milky Way




Doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using the VLA and GBT have discovered a magnetic field deep in the cloud's interior, which may protect it during its meteoric plunge into the disk of our galaxy.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/nra...

Jueves, 31 de Octubre 2013
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