Formation of clouds of gas, within galaxies in "modern" times | |
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Galaxy montage http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~wkim/Images/galaxysample_block.jpg Gravitational Instabilities in a Gaseous Disk from simulations of Woong-Tae Kim, Eve Ostriker & James Stone http://www.astro.umd.edu/~kimwt/MOVIES/DISK/index.html 3-D Movies of Instability leading to Formation of Molecular Clouds, from http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~wkim/movies.html Optical Image showing Star Formation in Molecular Clouds of a Spiral Galaxy (M51) |
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