the matter occurring between the stars of our Galaxy, largely in the spiral arms, and consisting mainly of huge clouds of ionized, neutral, or molecular hydrogen
Abbreviation: ISM
Examples of 'interstellar medium' in a sentence
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Is their presence or absence in the interstellar medium a significant problem?
Guillemin J-C. 2014, 'Amino Acids in the Universe', BIO Web of Conferenceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20140204002. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The ionic abundance fractions calculated in the paper can be used in understanding the spectroscopic properties of warm interstellar medium.
Kwang-Il Seon 2004, 'Charge Exchange Effects in Collisional Ionization Equilibrium of C,N, and O Ions',Journal of Astronomy and Space Scienceshttp://ocean.kisti.re.kr/downfile/volume/kosss/OJOOBS/2004/v21n4/OJOOBS_2004_v21n4_343.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
About 160 molecules have been detected in the interstellar medium, the comae and the atmospheres of planets.
Guillemin J.-C. 2012, 'Organic synthesis applied to space sciences', EPJ Web of Conferenceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20111806004. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These measurements, however, require careful monitoring and subtraction of local backgrounds, produced by the earth atmosphere and the interstellar medium.
Masi Silvia, Coppolecchia A., Battistelli E., de Bernardis P., Columbro F., D'AlessandroG., Lamagna L., Paiella A., Piacentini F., Presta G. 2019, 'Balloon-borne Cosmic Microwave Background experiments', EPJ Web of Conferenceshttps://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2019/14/epjconf_ricap2019_01046.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A jet termination region provides us with useful information about how a jet interacts with the interstellar medium.
Haruka Sakemi, Mami Machida, Takumi Ohmura, Shinsuke Ideguchi, Yoshimitsu Miyashita,Keitaro Takahashi, Takuya Akahori, Hiroki Akamatsu, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Kohei Kurahara,Jamie Farnes 2018, 'Faraday Tomography of the SS433 Jet Termination Region', Galaxieshttps://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/6/4/137. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Results carried out in this paper shows that stars are formed in interstellar mediummainly due to thermal instability.
Sachin Kaothekar 2016, 'Star formation through thermal instability of radiative plasma with finite electroninertia and finite Larmor radius corrections', AIP Advanceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4961991. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)