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Radio Astronomers Detect ‘Invisible’ Filament of Cold Gas | Astronomy – Sci-News.com

Using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and background radio galaxies, astronomers have spotted a long cloud of cold hydrogen about 13…

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Using CSIROs Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and background radio galaxies, astronomers have spotted a long cloud of cold hydrogen about 13 light-years away.
An artists impression of a thin gas cloud formed by tidal disruption from a passing star. Wang et al. think this is one of the possible ways the cold clump of gas detected in the study could have been formed. Image credit: Mark Myers / OzGrav.
We suspect that much of the missing baryonic matter is in the form of cold gas…

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