{"id":124048,"date":"2024-11-10T01:16:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T18:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124048"},"modified":"2024-11-10T01:16:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T18:16:53","slug":"astronomers-discover-interstellar-tunnel-in-our-solar-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124048","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Discover &#8220;Interstellar Tunnel&#8221; In Our Solar Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"block pb-1 text-3xl leading-none uppercase border-b lg:hidden xs:text-4xl font-k lg:text-5 border-red\">It may be part of an entire, galaxy spanning network.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">Cosmic Channel<\/h2>\n<p>Astronomers say they&#8217;ve found an &#8220;interstellar tunnel&#8221; in our solar neighborhood that could lead to other star systems.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/10.1051\/0004-6361\/202451045\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">new study<\/a> published in the journal <i>Astronomy &amp; and Astrophysics, <\/i>the tunnel exists as part of an enormous structure of hot gas with a radius of hundreds of light years that surrounds our solar system known as the Local Hot Bubble. What&#8217;s more, the findings suggest that it could connect with a nearby\u00a0and even larger bubble.<\/p>\n<p>Using extensive data collected by the eROSITA telescope, the first x-ray observatory fully outside of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, the researchers generated a 3D model of the entire LHB, confirming some features that astronomers had predicted, but also uncovering entirely new ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we didn&#8217;t know was the existence of an interstellar tunnel towards Centaurus, which carves a gap in the cooler interstellar medium,&#8221; said study coauthor Michael Freyberg, an astronomer at Germany&#8217;s Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-10-erosita-survey-unveils-asymmetries-temperature.html\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">in a statement<\/a>. &#8220;This region stands out in stark relief thanks to the much-improved sensitivity of eROSITA and a vastly different surveying strategy compared to ROSAT,&#8221; the space telescope&#8217;s predecessor.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">Living in a Bubble<\/h2>\n<p>The existence of the LHB, or simply the Local Bubble, was first proposed over fifty years ago to explain the pervasive presence of background x-ray radiation. Since the space between star systems is filled with diffuse clouds of gas and dust known as the interstellar medium \u2014 the stuff that coalesces to form stars \u2014 these low energy x-ray emissions should have been absorbed long before we could detect them.<\/p>\n<p>But what if our cosmic neck of the woods was empty for some reason? That would be the Local Bubble. Astronomers believe it formed some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/939516?\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">fourteen million years ago<\/a>, when a chain of supernovas blew all nearby interstellar material away, creating a cavity around 1,000 light years in diameter. As evidence, we can see remnants of these supernovas today.<\/p>\n<p>The idea has faced challenges; decades ago, it emerged that an interaction between our Sun&#8217;s solar winds and our planet&#8217;s outer atmosphere could produce similar x-ray emissions, according to the researchers. But the idea has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfa.harvard.edu\/news\/1000-light-year-wide-bubble-surrounding-earth-source-all-nearby-young-stars\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">further supported<\/a> in recent years with observations of clusters of nascent stars forming on the border of this bubble.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">Tip of the Iceberg<\/h2>\n<p>The authors suggest that the interstellar tunnel may be part of an entire interstellar medium network <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmiclog.com\/2024\/02\/20\/scientists-confirm-that-our-galaxys-wave-is-waving\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">that spans the Milky Way<\/a>, formed by blasts of energy released by stars.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the interstellar tunnel, the detailed modeling of the Local Bubble revealed a temperature gradient across the structure, with the northern region notably hotter than the southern one.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that there may have been more recent supernovas that expanded the bubble and reheated its material, perhaps in the last few million years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>More on space: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/black-hole-theoretical-limit\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">There&#8217;s Something Impossible About This Ravenous Black Hole, Scientists Say<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/astronomers-discover-interstellar-tunnel\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be part of an entire, galaxy spanning network. 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