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    Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption features seen in the spectra of astronomical objects in the Milky Way and other galaxies. They are caused...
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    been identified in the interstellar medium, where it is the cause of several absorption features known as diffuse interstellar bands in the near-infrared...
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  • field of diffuse interstellar band (DIB) research, especially through a series of nine articles published between 1963 and 1995 entitled "The diffuse interstellar...
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    dust grains. Astrophysical maser Diffuse interstellar band Fossil stellar magnetic field Heliosphere List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules Photodissociation...
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  • frequency ratios in different objects? Diffuse interstellar bands: What is responsible for the numerous interstellar absorption lines detected in astronomical...
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    insight into the Universe's recycling processes; in the clouds of the diffuse interstellar medium, in molecular clouds, in the circumstellar dust of young stellar...
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    diffuse interstellar bands, the 3.1 μm water ice feature, and the 10 and 18 μm silicate features. In the solar neighborhood, the rate of interstellar...
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  • Interface Board, a component of electronic Automatic Test Equipment Diffuse interstellar band, an astronomical spectroscopy term Dry ice bomb, a bomb-like device...
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    Francisco; Figer, Donald F.; et al. (10 November 2011). "Infrared diffuse interstellar bands in the Galactic Centre region". Nature. 479 (7372): 200–202. arXiv:1111...
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    stars, using spectroscopy. He also studied the interstellar medium, including diffuse interstellar bands. Shortly before he retired, he succeeded in detecting...
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    (2015), "Laboratory confirmation of C60+ as the carrier of two diffuse interstellar bands", Nature, 523 (7560): 322–323, Bibcode:2015Natur.523..322C, doi:10...
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    order to study gas phase interstellar chemistry, it is convenient to distinguish two types of interstellar clouds: diffuse clouds, with T=30–100 K, and...
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  • magnesium and calcium. It has been suggested to be a material that diffuse interstellar bands may arise from. Circular Rydberg states, where the outermost electron...
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    3I/ATLAS (category Interstellar objects)
    3I/ATLAS, also known as C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and previously as A11pl3Z, is an interstellar comet discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System...
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    molecular interstellar clouds in the sightlines GL2136 and W33A. In 1998, H+3 was unexpectedly detected by McCall et al. in a diffuse interstellar cloud in...
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    galaxy. Interstellar space contains an interstellar medium of sparse matter and radiation. The boundary between an astrosphere and interstellar space is...
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    van Dishoeck, E. F.; Black, J. H. (1986). "Comprehensive models of diffuse interstellar clouds – Physical conditions and molecular abundances" (PDF). Astrophys...
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    ethylene oxide) to be detected in space. Its stability in the (dilute) interstellar medium shows that its tautomerization does not happen unimolecularly...
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    Circumstellar envelope Cosmic dust Cosmic ray Cosmochemistry Diffuse interstellar band Earliest known life forms Extraterrestrial life Extraterrestrial...
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    Local Bubble (category Interstellar media)
    the denser interstellar medium. In 2019, the first 3D map of the Local Bubble was reported using observations of diffuse interstellar bands. In 2020, the...
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    a stellar nursery if star formation is occurring within—is a type of interstellar cloud of which the density and size permit absorption nebulae, the formation...
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    Circumstellar envelope Cosmic dust Cosmic ray Cosmochemistry Diffuse interstellar band Earliest known life forms Extraterrestrial life Extraterrestrial...
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  • Interstellar formaldehyde (a topic relevant to astrochemistry) was first discovered in 1969 by L. Snyder et al. using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory...
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  • 12976. PMC 6282608. PMID 29981148. Sarre PJ (July 2006). "The Diffuse Interstellar Bands: A Major Problem in Astronomical Spectroscopy". Journal of Molecular...
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    is the precise study of color as generalized from visible light to all bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Spectroscopy, primarily in the electromagnetic...
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  • spectra of distant binaries as interstellar in origin. She was also the discoverer of the diffuse interstellar bands. Deciding to focus on raising her...
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    of SN 2001el, over a dozen diffuse interstellar bands were discovered in NGC 1448 – one of the few cases that these bands were observed outside of the...
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    {\displaystyle X} emission bands (a.k.a. Vegard-Kaplan bands) are present in the spectral range from 0.14 to 1.45 μm (micrometres). A given band can be spread out...
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    supplanted the Monsanto process, often in the same production plants. Interstellar acetic acid was discovered in 1996 by a team led by David Mehringer using...
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    cyanopolyyne. Cyanoacetylene has been detected by spectroscopic methods in interstellar clouds, in the coma of comet Hale–Bopp and in the atmosphere of Saturn's...
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