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Nature 421, 708 (13 February 2003) | doi:10.1038/421708a
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- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1, UK
Astronomy: Hot gas around the Galaxy
Amiel Sternberg
Abstract
An extended system of highly ionized gas clouds that surrounds the Milky Way has been detected. This gas may be part of the original matter from which our Galaxy and its nearest neighbours formed.
How did galaxies form? Astronomical observations and theory suggest that the process began with the collapse of density perturbations in an originally smooth distribution of cosmic 'dark matter'.
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