A Giant‘ Singing’ Cloud in space will Help us( continued)
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A Giant‘ Singing’ Cloud in space will Help us( continued)
We can use Musca to better constraint our numerical models and learn about our own Solar system. It could help solve many mysteries. For example, could the ices found in comets have formed in clouds rather than at a later time during the life of our solar system?
Aris Tritsis is a post-doctoral Fellow, Australian National University.
No longer a thin cylinder when the extra dimension is revealed( Aris Tritsis)
This article was originally published in‘ The Conversation’ on 11th May 2018. SEN and the Science Teachers’ Association of NSW thank‘ The Conversation’ for its policy of encouraging republication of the many fine articles it publishes. We also thank the author of this article, Dr Aris Tritsis, for supplying this article, thereby supporting this policy.
Musca is not actively forming stars. It will be millions of years before gravity can overcome all the opposing forces that support the cloud. As a result, with its structure now determined, Musca can be used as a prototype laboratory against which we can compare our models and study the early stages of star formation.
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