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Huge Halo of Warm Gas around Magellanic Clouds is Key to Formation of Magellanic Stream | Astronomy – Sci-News.com

A team of astronomers from Australia and the United States has found that a halo of warm ionized gas surrounding the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds acts as a protective cocoon, shielding the dwarf galaxies from the Milky Way Galaxy’s own halo and contribut…

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A team of astronomers from Australia and the United States has found that a halo of warm ionized gas surrounding the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds acts as a protective cocoon, shielding the dwarf galaxies from the Milky Way Galaxys own halo and contributing most of the mass of the Magellanic Stream.
The Magellanic Stream in zenithal equal-area coordinates: (a) observed H I data for the Magellanic Stream, with the line-of-sight velocity indicated by the color scale and the relative gas colum…

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