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Another One Bites The Dust
One of my all-time favourite dark galaxy candidates was discovered by FAST back in 2023 . An isolated gas cloud with no obvious optical coun...
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Of course you can prove a negative. In one sense this can be the easiest thing in the world : your theory predicts something which doesn...
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In the last batch of simulations, we dropped a long gas stream into the gravitational potential of a cluster to see if it would get torn...
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And more importantly, how not to build a galaxy. Uniform discs of pure gas turn out to be almost impossible. Exponential discs - where ther...

Sure, though I did explain in several recent posts. This is what the sky would look like if we could see the neutral hydrogen gas of the Milky Way as well as the stars. Hydrogen emits at very specific frequencies depending on how fast it's moving towards or away from us. In the above gif, the emission in different frequencies is used to generate the red, green and blue colours, which helps to enhance the visibility of the different structures. I explain more here :
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It's a "test" in the sense that I'm trying to work out the best way to show this.
21 cm band, if I remember my Larry Niven correctly.
ReplyDeleteYep, and in Carl Sagan's Contact they even use real astronomer-speak and call it L-band.
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