An international team of researchers, including members from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI), has directly observed "highly charged muonic ions," ...

Milky Way's halo raining ionized gas to fuel continued star formation. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 08 / 110825164931.htm ...

Near the nucleus of the Milky Way, the gas is ionized from the energy emitted by newly forming stars being birthed in the galaxy. However, further away from the galaxy's center, ...

Plasma is an ionized gas—that is, a gas containing electrons, ions, atoms, molecules, radicals, and photons. It is often called the fourth state of matter, and surprisingly, it permeates everything.

A hydrogen atom can lose its electron and become ionized when it gets heated to temperatures of over 10,000°C (18,032°F). Now, researchers have discovered a cloud of ionized hydrogen towards the ...

That could explain why there is so much ionized gas in the central region called the Central Molecular Zone ... A diagram shows the proportion of dark matter to "everyday" matter that composes ...

The ionized hydrogen that has been discovered is part of a vast network known as the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). This gas exists between galaxies, connecting them in a massive cosmic web.

Vast clouds of ionized atoms ejected from a dying star form a planetary nebula named Kohoutek 4-55, as revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope.