Interstellar clouds

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  • Interstellar clouds
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  • Interstellar globules
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Abstract from DBPedia
    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 region of the interstellar medium, the matter and radiation that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy. Depending on the density, size, and temperature of a given cloud, its hydrogen can be neutral, making an H I region; ionized, or plasma making it an H II region; or molecular, which are referred to simply as molecular clouds, or sometime dense clouds. Neutral and ionized clouds are sometimes also called diffuse clouds. An interstellar cloud is formed by the gas and dust particles from a red giant in its later life.

    星間雲(せいかんうん)は、銀河系を含む銀河に見られるガス・プラズマ・ダスト(塵)の集まりを総称したものである。別の言い方をすれば、星間雲とは星間領域において星間物質の密度が周囲より高い領域のことである。水素を例に取ると、雲の濃度・大きさ・温度および他の天体からの電磁波などにより星間雲中の水素は中性(または基底状態)のH I領域(原子雲)、イオン状態(または励起状態)のHII領域(プラズマ雲)、分子状態(分子雲)になる。またその密度の違いにより低密度雲、高密度雲に分けられる。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Interstellar_cloud)

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