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NASA's Chandra Shows Milky Way is Surrounded by Halo of Hot Gas
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26-09-2012, 01:15 PM
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From the Moderator comments in the article "They mean the thermal energy of individual particles of that gas."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal...dual_particles
I see so the individual particles are in intense motion but too dispersed to be seen except at massive distances. Odd though you'd think they would cool rapidly being so dispersed.
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