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The sounds of spirals

Sound waves may have sculpted the spiral pattern of gas and dust in the inner region of a galaxy.

 

References:

Elmegreen, B.G., et al. 1998. Dust spirals and acoustic noise in the nucleus of the galaxy NGC 2207. Astrophysical Journal Letters 503(Aug. 20):L119.

 

Sources:

Bruce G. Elmegreen
T.J. Watson Research Center
IBM Research Division
P.O. Box 218
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 11, September 12, 1998, p. 169. Copyright © 1998 by Science Service.

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