Together they form the heliosphere within the surrounding local interstellar medium – the plasma, neutral particles and dust that fill the space between stars and their respective astrospheres.

This previously unknown gap in the cooler interstellar medium appears to act as a passageway, allowing hot gas from the LHB to escape. "What we didn’t know was the existence of an interstellar ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

A key objective of ongoing research rooted in molecular physics is to understand and precisely control chemical reactions at ...

Therefore, the CLS instruments can be used to better understand the dynamics of the interstellar medium and the chemical ...

We can probe the ionized interstellar medium through imaging and timing observations of compact radio sources. As the radio waves pass through the interstellar medium, they are distorted and delayed ...

In fact, within the interstellar medium of our galaxy, most of the elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are locked up in interstellar dust grains. The new results not only produce an accurate ...

This introduction to the spectroscopy, mainly by radio astronomy, of interstellar molecules was written five years before the discovery of C60. It covers an introduction to interstellar medium and ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds of dust and gas swirl amid energetic shock waves.

NGC 4536 is a starburst galaxy with rapid star formation due to gas compression. Its bar-like structure channels gas toward the nucleus, fueling intense star birth. The hot blue stars formed quickly ...