How Do Gas Clouds Form in Space
As Dying Stars Exploded, the Gas Was Thrust Away from the Supernovas with Enough Speed to Push It Outside of the Milky Way, Where It Formed Clouds. These...
As dying stars exploded, the gas was thrust away from the supernovas with enough speed to push it outside of the Milky Way, where it formed clouds. These clouds rain back down on the galaxy, much like water from a fountain falls to the ground after jetting upward.
How are gas clouds formed?
Stars form inside relatively dense concentrations of interstellar gas and dust known as molecular clouds. These regions are extremely cold (temperature about 10 to 20K, just above absolute zero). At these temperatures, gases become molecular meaning that atoms bind together.
What are gas clouds made of?
We know that clouds are made of water vapor, what we don’t know or at least forget is the important role that condensation plays in making clouds visible. For the most part water vapor is invisible. This is proven by the fact that the air we breathe regularly has some water vapor as part of its composition.
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