Is the angular size of the black hole in the movie interstellar . . . I assume everybody is tired of reading questions derived from the movie Interstellar, I will try to keep this short and simple: In general in movies, in order to have stunning visuals, celestial objects are displayed as if they were extremely close to the observers, having a enormous apparent angular size
How does interstellar matter density vary? - Astronomy Stack Exchange The interstellar medium is a multiphase medium, and you can find (some references in this lecture and in this thesis manuscript (this one is in French, but numbers are international)): the hot ionized medium (HIM) with density as low as 10^-3 cc (particles per cubic centimeter); the warm ionized medium (WIM), with density of the order of 0 03 cc; the warm neutral medium (WNM), with density of
What is the difference between gas and dust in astronomy? The temperature of interstellar medium seems to range mostly between 10 and 10 000 Kelvin Is gas dust an analog for hot cold, or does the phase diagram of the element in question matter too?
Why is the interstellar medium so hot? - Astronomy Stack Exchange The difference in density is huge, with interstellar medium density at an average of $\rho ∼ 1\ ppcm$ (one proton per cubic centimeter), but the density of these WHIM being even a few orders of magnitude lower at $\rho ∼ 10^ {−6}−10^ {−5}\ ppcm$, or roughly 1 to 10 protons per cubic meter (NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory quotes
What are the differences between Intergalactic Medium, Interstellar . . . The interstellar medium (ISM) is, as you say, the gas (and dust) in between the stars, within a galaxy It consists of molecular, neutral and ionized gas, with densities ranging from $\sim 10^ {-3}$ to $\sim 10^ {6}$ particles per cm $^ {3}$ and temperatures ranging from a few K up to 10,000 or 20,000 K The molecular gas is the coldest and densest, usually found in molecular clouds The
What is the maximum transmission distance of the radio signal in the . . . Surely we know something about the physics of radio signals in a vacuum and can surmise the effects of interstellar space on signal degradation Maybe the author didn't provide enough information to define the problem, but saying "don't know because we haven't been there yet" just feels a bit lacking
How cold is interstellar space? - Astronomy Stack Exchange The density of the interstellar medium is so very, very low that radiation losses completely dominate over conduction from the medium The interstellar medium can be very hot precisely because it is a gas (gases are a bit weird), and because it is extremely tenuous (extremely tenuous gases are beyond weird)
Solar-system origin of interstellar bodies (like 1I ʻOumuamua)? I understand that 1I ʻOumuamua and the other two bodies (2I Borisov and 3I ATLAS) are classified as interstellar objects based on their distance from the Sun and their speed In other words the sum
interstellar medium - Why does dust affect UV light more severe than it . . . 7 My supervisor told me that the UV photons emitted from AGN are heavily affected by ISM (dust extinction), but not X-rays, as described in Extinction - a powerful discriminator of dust size Since X-ray and UV are all photons with different levels of energy, why does dust (interstellar medium) affects UV more than X-rays?