ASTRONOMY: Why don’t gas clouds in space dissipate?


Have you ever wondered why massive gas clouds in space don’t disperse or slowly vanish? TheBadAstronomer provides an explanation, but don’t ask a creationist.

One thought on “ASTRONOMY: Why don’t gas clouds in space dissipate?

  1. I am not completely sure but i would say that the cumulative gravitational effects of trillions of gas molecules and atoms and possibly some kind of static magnetic charge hold the gas clouds in relatively globular form.

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