Thursday, 31 October 2013

Magnetic 'force field' shields giant gas cloud during collision with Milky Way

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Doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers have discovered a magnetic field deep in the cloud’s interior, which may protect it during its meteoric plunge into the disk of our Galaxy.

via Science Daily

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