Jun 14, 2025 · And to answer the question about an interstellar "meteor the size of the Moon", that is even more impossibler than an interstellar "meteoroid the size of the Moon". A meteor is …

May 12, 2025 · Just how dense would interstellar matter have to be to even (practically) detect it with spectroscopy, if being near 0 kelvin (read: far away from nearby stars) affects its spectral …

Mar 15, 2021 · While practicing for an upcoming examination, I ran into this problem: Which of the following best describes dust grains in the interstellar medium: They are a few hundred …

Jun 2, 2016 · The density of the interstellar medium is so very, very low that radiation losses completely dominate over conduction from the medium. The interstellar medium can be very …

Oct 15, 2020 · I assume everybody is tired of reading questions derived from the movie Interstellar, I will try to keep this short and simple: In general in movies, in order to have …

Oct 29, 2021 · The interstellar medium (ISM) is, as you say, the gas (and dust) in between the stars, within a galaxy. It consists of molecular, neutral and ionized gas, with densities ranging …

Oct 21, 2025 · An interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS is visiting our Solar System. What is known about its composition? How does this compare to similarly sized (km-scale) cometary …

Apr 16, 2021 · Which bring the question of why does rotation prevent the further contraction of the cloud? Doesn't the rotation create a centripetal force that pointed inside, thus make the …

Feb 20, 2025 · The elements of these stars are formed by nucleosynthesis. These exploding stars would have created an interstellar gas medium in which the contents of these stars mixed. …

Quick checks of a few of them show a mixture of simple typos (i.e., "intrastellar" used when "interstellar" is clearly meant), awkward/failed attempts at synonyms for "intracluster stellar …