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- From: metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern)
- Subject: Re: The Big Bang Never Happened
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:13:44 GMT
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- buell@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu (Jim Buell) writes:
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- > How thick is your ISM? Does its density eventually drop off somewhere?
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- The density of the ISM drops to near zero at the border of the local
- superbubble, which surrounds us with a radius of a couple hundred parsecs.
- Just outside the superbubble the ISM must be bunched up thicker than
- average, because the contents of a sphere with about 200 pc radius has been
- emptied and pushed out that far. The density again drops to near zero at
- the edges of the galaxy. In between, it is the normal ISM we see absorbing
- starlight. -|Tom|-
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- Tom Van Flandern / Washington, DC / metares@well.sf.ca.us
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