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    The Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC), also known as the Local Fluff, is an interstellar cloud roughly 30 light-years (9.2 pc) across, through which the...
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    An Interstellar Cloud is generally an accumulation of gas, plasma, and dust in our and other galaxies. Put differently, an interstellar cloud is a denser-than-average...
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    neighbours and among others, the Local Interstellar Cloud (which contains the Solar System), the neighbouring G-Cloud, the Ursa Major moving group (the...
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    Galactic (G) cloud or G cloud, also known as the G-Cloud (or G-Cloud complex) is an interstellar cloud located next to the Local Interstellar Cloud, within...
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    Sun (redirect from Local Star)
    the Local Interstellar Cloud, although it is not clear if it is embedded in the Local Interstellar Cloud or if it lies just outside the cloud's edge...
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    the Local Interstellar Cloud, although it is not clear if it is embedded in the Local Interstellar Cloud or if it lies just outside the cloud's edge...
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    Heliosphere (category Local Interstellar Cloud)
    interstellar medium. The heliosphere is thought to reside in the Local Interstellar Cloud inside the Local Bubble, which is a region in the Orion Arm of the Milky...
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    A molecular cloud, sometimes called a stellar nursery (if star formation is occurring within), is a type of interstellar cloud, the density and size of...
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    traveling through the Local Interstellar Cloud, an irregular clump of the warm neutral medium a few parsecs across, within the low-density Local Bubble, a 100-parsec...
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    of nearest stars and brown dwarfs Local Interstellar Cloud and Local Bubble Interplanetary spaceflight Interstellar travel Intergalactic travel "NASA's...
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    Virgo Supercluster Local Sheet Local Group Milky Way subgroup Milky Way Orion–Cygnus Arm Gould Belt Local Bubble Local Interstellar Cloud – immediate galactic...
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  • technology co-operative headquartered in New Zealand Local Interstellar Cloud, an interstellar cloud Long Island City, a neighborhood in New York City Low...
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    near) the Local Interstellar Cloud, roughly 30 light-years (9.2 pc) across. The Local Interstellar Cloud is, in turn, contained inside the Local Bubble,...
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    program Interstellar probe List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System List of missions to the outer planets Local Interstellar Cloud Space exploration...
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    astronomical location: intergalactic dust, interstellar dust, interplanetary dust (as in the zodiacal cloud), and circumplanetary dust (as in a planetary...
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    (2000). "A 5-fluid hydrodynamic approach to model the Solar System-interstellar medium interaction" (PDF). Astronomy & Astrophysics. 357: 268. Bibcode:2000A&A...
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    interstellar medium which contains the Local Interstellar Cloud Local Interstellar Cloud – Interstellar cloud in the Milky Way Galaxy Orion Arm – Minor...
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    depending on the local density of the interstellar medium. The Local Bubble contains dozens of warm interstellar clouds with temperatures of up to 7,000 K...
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    Barnard's Star (category Local Interstellar Cloud)
    Along with detailed investigation of the star and any companions, the interstellar medium would be examined and baseline astrometric readings performed...
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  • Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed, written, and produced by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway,...
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    lower density of hydrogen than was believed at that time (see Local Interstellar Cloud). In 1969, John Ford Fishback made an important contribution, describing...
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  • abundance of helium varies greatly depending on its origin. In the Local Interstellar Cloud, the proportion of 3 He to 4 He is 1.62(29)×10−4, which is 121(22)...
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    catastrophe. In 2019, researchers found interstellar iron in Antarctica which they relate to the Local Interstellar Cloud, which might have been formed near...
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    009. Grün, E.; et al. (1993). "Discovery of Jovian dust streams and interstellar grains by the ULYSSES spacecraft". Nature. 362 (6419): 428–430. Bibcode:1993Natur...
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    researchers found interstellar iron in Antarctica in snow from the Kohnen Station which they relate to the Local Interstellar Cloud List of Antarctic...
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  • Glass - The Physics Factbook". hypertextbook.com. "Our Local Galactic Neighborhood". Interstellar Probe Project. NASA. 2000. Archived from the original...
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    atoms (ENA) ribbon. The Sun is currently traveling through the Local Interstellar Cloud, and the heliosphere's size and shape are key factors in determining...
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    expected; this phenomenon is called interstellar reddening. Interstellar reddening is a phenomenon associated with interstellar extinction where the spectrum...
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    interstellar dust in Antarctic surface snow not older than 20 years which they relate to the Local Interstellar Cloud. The detection of interstellar dust...
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    planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a...
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