glowing cloud

[¦glō·iŋ ′klau̇d]

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Haddock and his colleagues have discovered that the squids also emit luminous blue particles that can form a glowing cloud around the animal, apparently to distract predators so the squid can vanish into darkness.

The deep seas are alive with light

This endeavor led to the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project, in which we invited the public to help astronomers classify a million galaxies by shape and discover the "weird things" out there that nobody knew are out there, such as Hanny's Voorwerp, the giant glowing cloud of gas next to a massive galaxy.

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Observations tracking carbon monoxide molecules in the glowing cloud Herbig-Haro 46/47 (left), which sits about 1,400 light-years away in the southern constellation Vela, show that the molecules flow through the cloud about five times faster than earlier measurements indicated.

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Ghost Ship In the green glowing cloud that formed in front of them was the black silhouette of what was obviously a Viking long ship, and it came gliding along through the air as crackling bolts of electricity came off it.

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This is the tiny Ring Nebula, a glowing cloud ejected from a dying star.

August: the queen star of late summer: Vega is overhead, which means the Sagittarius Milky Way is at its best in the south

This hazy region of the Great Orion Nebula is not a star but an immense glowing cloud of hydrogen gas where new stars have formed.

Star track: wonders of the winter sky

Because it was hidden, says Heap - by a glowing cloud of gases called a nebula.

Hubble hotshot?

An old lady who lived on Smithdown Road was said to have been chased by a green glowing cloud on Penny Lane around the time of the haunting and she collapsed near St Barnabas church.

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Just north of the Sagittarius Teapot's spout lies the particularly interesting nebula M20, which is popularly known as the Trifid Nebula due to the dark lanes of dust that divide the glowing cloud's brightest region into three distinct segments.

8 celestial showpieces

The evidence is a glowing cloud of gas, roughly the size of our solar system, surrounding a star that has clearly been a white dwarf for a long time because it also sits at the center of a much wider, fainter, older gas shell.

Life at the end of the line

South of Merope, one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades star cluster, is a softly glowing cloud of interstellar dust.

The view from space: during the past 40 years numerous spacecraft have roamed the solar system, snapping amazing close-ups of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets. Other craft, despite remaining in earth orbit, peer deep into the cosmos to give us breathtaking views of star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies

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