Paris, 13 feb ( EFE).-an international team of scientists has discovered in the via milky way, thanks to the space telescope Planck from the European Space Agency (ESA), “ islets” of cold gas whose existence until now was unknown, said today the French for scientific research (CNRS) National Centre.
That group of experts from centres such as the Institute of research in planetary science and Astrophysics in Grenoble and CNRS, had served the instrument of high frequency (NHR) of the Planck for the first complete map of the distribution of carbon monoxide in our galaxy.
Dada the power of that instrument, said researcher Jonathan Aumont in the communiqué of the CNRS, unexpected hydrogen molecules, were also found given that “The Planck systematically swept across the sky,” which allowed to detect these concentrations of molecular gas where they were expected not.
El CNRS explained that the cold clouds present in the galaxies, and specifically in the milky way, constitute “reservations” from which stars are formed, and are mainly composed of hydrogen molecules and, to a lesser extent, carbon monoxide.
Although this last element is less abundant, is easier to locate because it emits more light than the molecules of hydrogen, and that is why scientists use it as a starting point to trace the geographical Charter of so-called clouds of hydrogen.
This discovery, according to the CNRS, becomes more important for the scientific community to the fact that the radio telescopes require more time and focus often “in the sectors of sky that is already suspected the existence of these molecular clouds”.
The finding will be detailed tomorrow in the Italian town of Bologna in an International Conference on the results achieved so far by the Planck that the CNRS today said that so far have provided “a point of view unpublished on some physical processes” that occur in our galaxy. EFE
