X-ray image showing a comet-like blob of gas about 5 million light-years long hurling through a distant galaxy cluster over 500 miles per second. The comet is confined to the orange regions in this image. The head is the lower right, with reddish areas. The tail fans outward because there is less pressure to confine it. The color red refers to regions of lower entropy. The orange regions have higher entropy. Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/Finoguenov et al.
This entropy map separates the cold and dense gas of the comet from the hotter and more rarefied gas of the cluster. The data shows the process of gas being stripped from the comet's core (entropy goes up) and forming a large tail containing lumps of colder and denser gas. The researchers estimate that a sun's worth of mass is lost every hour. Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/Finoguenov et al.
thats nothing, sneak a few onions into my food. :)
"In related news, scientists have renamed the giant ball of gas after Massasschusett's Senator Edward M. Kennedy..."
"...largest gas ball of its kind ever detected..."
Evidently the writer's never heard of Jimmy Carter.
