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  • Thumbnail for Interstellar medium
    The interstellar medium (ISM) is the matter and radiation that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy. This matter includes gas in ionic...
    60 KB (7,343 words) - 22:10, 1 August 2024
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    important insight into the Universe's recycling processes; in the clouds of the diffuse interstellar medium, in molecular clouds, in the circumstellar...
    52 KB (5,828 words) - 02:50, 3 September 2024
  • A chemical element is a chemical substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical reactions. The basic particle that constitutes...
    74 KB (9,731 words) - 02:41, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interstellar travel
    Interstellar travel is the hypothetical travel of spacecraft between star systems. Due to the vast distances between the Solar System and nearby stars...
    94 KB (9,986 words) - 14:49, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interstellar object
    An interstellar object is an astronomical object (such as an asteroid, a comet, or a rogue planet, but not a star or stellar remnant) in interstellar space...
    51 KB (5,193 words) - 14:38, 16 October 2024
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    ISBN 978-0-521-85593-8 Spitzer, Lyman Jr. (1978), Physical Processes in the Interstellar Medium, Wiley Classics Library, ISBN 978-0-471-29335-4 Stuart...
    137 KB (13,488 words) - 16:04, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hydroxyl radical
    Hydroxyl radical (category Biological processes)
    levels. In order to study gas phase interstellar chemistry, it is convenient to distinguish two types of interstellar clouds: diffuse clouds, with T=30-100...
    30 KB (3,021 words) - 10:50, 18 September 2024
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    record played only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in interstellar space, but the launching of this 'bottle' into the cosmic 'ocean' says...
    35 KB (3,393 words) - 10:57, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Extinction (astronomy)
    the chemical composition of the interstellar material, e.g. dust grains. Known absorption features include the 2175 Å bump, the diffuse interstellar bands...
    32 KB (3,488 words) - 21:03, 17 July 2024
  • A chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule...
    24 KB (3,205 words) - 14:13, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Astrochemistry
    interstellar atoms and molecules and their interaction with radiation is sometimes called molecular astrophysics. The formation, atomic and chemical composition...
    38 KB (4,243 words) - 03:04, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ammonia
    Ammonia (category Chemical articles having a data page)
    building block for the synthesis of many chemicals. Ammonia occurs in nature and has been detected in the interstellar medium. In many countries it is classified...
    138 KB (14,909 words) - 13:47, 21 September 2024
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    Hydrogen cyanide (category Articles containing unverified chemical infoboxes)
    ~3.5. HCN has been used to analyze a variety of species and processes in the interstellar medium. It has been suggested as a tracer for dense molecular...
    46 KB (4,606 words) - 22:29, 11 September 2024
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    radical •CN has been identified in interstellar space. Cyanogen, (CN)2, is used to measure the temperature of interstellar gas clouds. Hydrogen cyanide is...
    35 KB (3,927 words) - 12:22, 7 September 2024
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    Natural abundance (category Chemical properties)
    evolved ("dying") stars and escaped the mixing and homogenization processes in the interstellar medium and the solar accretion disk (also known as the solar...
    7 KB (727 words) - 16:32, 11 August 2024
  • The abundance of the chemical elements is a measure of the occurrences of the chemical elements relative to all other elements in a given environment...
    41 KB (4,306 words) - 06:41, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cosmochemistry
    (khēmeía) 'chemistry') or chemical cosmology is the study of the chemical composition of matter in the universe and the processes that led to those compositions...
    24 KB (2,423 words) - 21:26, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nucleosynthesis
    1957. That paper defined new processes for the transformation of one heavy nucleus into others within stars, processes that could be documented by astronomers...
    42 KB (5,352 words) - 00:10, 24 September 2024
  • Hydronium (category Articles containing unverified chemical infoboxes)
    ion's chemical interactions under these conditions. As early as 1973 and before the first interstellar detection, chemical models of the interstellar medium...
    36 KB (4,020 words) - 19:58, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Avi Loeb
    Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (2021) and Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars (2023)...
    50 KB (5,099 words) - 22:37, 8 September 2024
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