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Cosmic ray particles disturb composition of Titan’s atmosphere

A sand storm is not the best place to cook a meal or to bake a cake. The sand particles migh contaminate and affect the ingredients, and the end result would taste badly.In space, too, particles from outside may affect the way molecules are ‘cooked’. Using ALMA, astronomers have...

Tracing back one of the ingredients of life

If you bake a cake, you need all kinds of ingredients, like flour, butter, sugar and eggs. You can’t makesomething from nothing! Likewise, when life first emerged on our planet, it needed its owningredients. Some of those, like carbon and oxygen, are readily available in the universe. But forother...

Gas whirls in between monster black holes in galaxy crash

When two cars crash into each other, you end up with a lot of wreckage. The same is true for twocolliding galaxies. Over time, they may merge into one larger galaxy, but right after the crash,everything looks very chaotic.That’s the case with the galaxy NGC 6240, which has now...

Pollution alert in the early universe

We all know about environmental pollution. The air is polluted by cars, airplanes and factories. Theoceans are polluted with plastic. Humans produce a lot of filth that spreads throughout our world,slowly but surely.Now, astronomers have discovered the first environmental pollution in the universe. It’s notproduced by humans, but by...

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