Researchers have unveiled a cosmic cycle where carbon, created in the explosions of stars, travels through space via a ...
It’s like a big, invisible halo of gas that can stretch for hundreds of thousands of light-years. In 2011, findings from the ...
Star-made atoms cycle through giant galactic currents in space, forming a cosmic conveyor belt that returns material to ...
and hot halo formation that regulate galaxy growth and evolution. The thousands of orbits of COS UV spectroscopic data focused on the circumgalactic medium uniquely probe the history of gas ...
Carbon, the essential building block of life, has a remarkable origin story. Nearly all elements beyond hydrogen and helium, ...
In this artistic rendering, light from a distant quasar passes through the halo-like circumgalactic medium of a galaxy on its way to Earth, where it is measured by Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph ...