Show SKY WONDERS Glowing Gas Found in Sky Edwin F. Carpenter of the University of Arizona reported the recent discovery of vast rivers of glowing gas and stars formed by cosmic Long and the streams of gas stretch like a faint filament or link between two the great star cities of the he He suggested that they were formed by a great sideswiping collision of two galaxies that lasted for Hot gass were sucked out as a long streamer of wreckage as the galaxies tore through each other and then rushed The swirling of gas apparently condenses into stars as it and thus keeps glowing all the The rivers give a clue as to how some stars are and Indicate that more stars are being born Gas Clouds Carpenter said he found 15 cases In which pairs of galaxies are engaged in collision or emerging from Galaxies are great collections of containing up to Our Milky is one of the Some are spiral and some They may be light years a light year being the distance light travels in one There are millions or billions of galaxies in the Stars in a galaxy are so widely separated that one galaxy can go right through another either group being aware of the Carpenter But gas clouds In the galaxies collide and grow and the glowing filament of gas Is pulled and trailed out as the star cities race on In some to the streamer becomes as long as a galaxy Is Some are relatively forming almost threadlike Others are wide and fuzzy in Some look like an axle two spiral New Type Star Found Carpenter found the rivers In studying pairs of or even larger far out in three other astronomers have announced the finding of what seems to be a brand-new type of a blue It is one of the bluest stars In the and very All other very hot blue stars are extremely The blue dwarf lies in the Northern Cross but is well outside the Milky That in a place where hot stars are found only they explained It may represent a new family of high-temperature never before |