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• Giant Molecular Cloud —    A large cloud of gas in interstellar space. This gas is more concentrated than in other gas clouds and is combining into molecules. Stars and planets are formed when a Giant Molecular Cloud collapses and coalesces. These clouds may have a… …   The writer's dictionary of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythology

• Molecular cloud — See also: Solar nebula Within a few million years the light from bright stars will have boiled away this molecular cloud of gas and dust. The cloud has broken off from the Carina Nebula. Newly formed stars are visible nearby, their images… …   Wikipedia

• Atomic and molecular astrophysics — Within a few million years the light from bright stars will have boiled away this molecular cloud of gas and dust. The cloud has broken off from the Carina Nebula. Newly formed stars are visible nearby, their images reddened by blue light being… …   Wikipedia

• Atomic and Molecular astrophysics — Atomic astrophysics is concerned with performing atomic physics calculations that will be useful to astronomers and using atomic data to interpret astronomical observations. Atomic physics plays a key role in astrophysics as astronomers only… …   Wikipedia

• Gas giant — A gas giant (sometimes also known as a Jovian planet after the planet Jupiter, or giant planet) is a large planet that is not primarily composed of rock or other solid matter. There are four gas giants in our Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus …   Wikipedia

• nebula — nebular, adj. /neb yeuh leuh/, n., pl. nebulae / lee , luy /, nebulas. 1. Astron. a. Also called diffuse nebula. a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Cf. dark nebula, emission nebula, reflection nebula …   Universalium

• Nebular hypothesis — Star formation Interstellar medium Molecular cloud …   Wikipedia

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• Ammonia — For other uses, see Ammonia (disambiguation). Ammonia …   Wikipedia

• Interstellar medium — Interstellar redirects here. For other uses, see Interstellar (disambiguation). The distribution of ionized hydrogen (known by astronomers as H II from old spectroscopic terminology) in the parts of the Galactic interstellar medium visible… …   Wikipedia

• Galaxy — This article is about the astronomical structure. For other uses, see Galaxy (disambiguation). NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 55,000 light years in diameter and approximately 60 million light… …   Wikipedia