Friday, October 25, 2013

ScienceDaily: Nebulae News

ScienceDaily: Nebulae News


Scientists solve mystery of odd patterns of oxygen in solar system's earliest rocks

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 11:33 AM PDT

By re-creating conditions in the solar nebula, the swirl of gas that coalesced to form our star, the planets and the remnant rocky debris that circles the Sun as asteroids, the researchers demonstrated that a simple chemical reaction, governed by known physical principles, can generate silicate dust with oxygen anomalies that match those found in the oldest rocks in the solar system.

Ghostly shape of 'coldest place in the universe' revealed

Posted: 24 Oct 2013 11:31 AM PDT

Astronomers have taken a new look at the Boomerang Nebula, the so-called "coldest place in the Universe" to learn more about its frigid properties and determine its true shape, which has an eerily ghost-like appearance.

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