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Milky Way galaxy is threatened in the collision Cloud Giant, giant clouds of gas containing hydrogen in a very large volume was shot near Milky Way disk, where our solar shelter.
Terrible collision that is estimated to occur between 20-40 million years would produce a giant fireworks spectacular at the same time destroy all other forms of kehidupan.Objek was named Cloud Smith, taken from the name GailSmith, a U.S. astronomer who first detected it in 1963 when studied at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
Since the discovery, astronomers are still debating whether the cloud is actually closer to or away from the Milky Way. Record the data available so far are still limited and it is unclear whether the object is part of the Milky Way or the fog is still moving toward it.
So far, researchers have detected only gas and no stars in it. Melihtanya The only way is by radio telescopes because of the cold gas does not emit light, but reflects radio waves.When viewed from Earth, the cloud width is proportional to 30 times the width of the Moon.
From head to tail tip is to wrap the Orion constellation. New observations using radio telescopes controlled the biggest in the world, the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, USA, showed that the object is moving toward the Milky Way.
In fact, as reported by a joint team of astronomers from the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the University of Wisconsin Whitewater in the American Astronomical Society meeting to-211 in Austin, Texas recently, the style has touched the fog pushed the Milky Way.
"If a collision occurs, it will trigger the birth of the formation of new stars. There will be many giant stars are formed, short-lived, and explode as a supernova that emit blinding light, "said Chairman of the research team, DR. Felix Lockman, from the NRAO.
Because, Cloud Smith brings enormous energy in the form of hydrogen gas is enough to form millions of stars about the size of the Sun. Smith is a blob of gas clouds the size of achieving 11,000 light-years long and 2500 light-years wide.
The object is currently located 40,000 light years from Earth and 8,000 light years from the disc that deserves to be called fog Bimasakti.Objek monsters in this cosmos of space moving at 240 kilometers per second and is expected to crash into the Milky Way disk with an inclination of 45 degrees.
The collision will occur at the edge of the Milky Way disk is almost the same distance to the center of our solar system with the distance to the center of the galaxy. However, its position is far from our solar system, is expected within 90 degrees towards the center of the disk."We do not know where it came from, let alone its orbit confusing, but we say that he began to interact with the outer Milky Way," said Lockman.bertabrakan.