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FROM PENGUINS TO DUST CLOUDS

How unconventional thinking helped us visualize interstellar dust in virtual reality By Benjamin Bairrington – 15 July 2026 A SILLY QUESTION ABOUT PENGUINS Let us begin with a deliberately silly question: How many penguins live natively on Cape Canaveral?Cape Canaveral is best known as a launch site for NASA, not as a penguin habitat. The […]

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Chemistry in the Turbulent Interstellar Medium

Based on Harvard’s press release article (Friday, November 22, 2019) Paper Reference: Bialy et al 2019 ApJ 885 109 Over two hundred molecules have been discovered in space, some (like Buckminsterfullerene) very complex with carbon atoms. Besides being intrinsically interesting, these molecules radiate away heat, helping giant clouds of interstellar material cool and contract to form new stars. Moreover, astronomers […]

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