This cloudy, ominous structure is CG 4, a cometary globule nicknamed ‘God’s Hand’. CG 4 is one of many cometary globules present within the Milky Way, and how these objects get their distinct form is ...

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New pictures of a distant nebula have revealed what appears to be a gargantuan hand made of dust and gas, stretching through space. The spooky sight was spied around 1,300 light years away from our ...

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Researchers have evaluated the benefits of placing the DNA on the principle of spaghetti. Scientists concluded that packing of the genome in a special state called 'fractal globule,' apart from other ...

A Bok globule is a compact dark nebula first recognized by Dutch-American astronomer Bart Bok (1906–1983). Dust makes up about 1 percent of these clouds by mass. Cold gas constitutes the rest. Because ...

A cometary globule, known as “God’s Hand,” has been captured by the Dark Energy Camera on NSF’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter ...

Polymer materials are used in every part of our life – from textile fibers to automotive engineering. Due to their functional properties like strength, durability, low weight, and many others, they ...

The molten globule, a conformational ensemble with significant secondary structure but only loosely packed tertiary structure, has been suggested to be a ubiquitous intermediate in protein folding.

ABSTRACT We discuss optical and infrared emission from the putative planetary nebula in the young open cluster NGC 3572. Velocity images of [N ii] λ6583 obtained with the Rutgers/CTIO Fabry‐Perot ...