The Milky Way is surrounded by a huge hot halo of gas

The Milky Way is surrounded by a huge hot halo of gas
By Paul M. Sutter

Our Milky Way galaxy isn’t just a disk of stars and nebulae – it’s surrounded by a cloud of hot, thin plasma. And recently, researchers at The Ohio State University confirmed that the plasma surrounding our galaxy is much, much hotter than we previously thought. It’s hard to see the gaseous halo of the Milky …

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June 8, 2020 at 10:36PM
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