Astronomers
using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Australia
Telescope Compact Array have discovered that diamond dust is responsible
for a mysterious glow emanating from certain areas of the Milky Way
Galaxy. This mysterious glow is known as the anomalous microwave
emission (AME).
In the new study ,astronomers were searching
for AME light in 14 newborn star systems across the Milky Way. In three
of these systems, these emissions were found emanating from
planet-forming disks of dust and gas swirling around the stars. The
unique infrared-light signatures of nanodiamonds - carbon crystals far
smaller than a grain of sand - in these same three systems.
This
study is "good news for those who study polarization of the cosmic
microwave
background, since the signal from spinning nanodiamonds would be weakly
polarized at best," said co-author Brian Mason, an astronomer at the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virgina. "This
means that astronomers can now make better models of the
foreground microwave light from our galaxy, which must be removed to
study the distant afterglow of the Big Bang."
Read more about this fascinating story at: https://www.space.com/40840-nanodiamonds-mysterious-cosmic-microwave-light.html
Or read the full study at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0495-z
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Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Cosmic Glow Discovered to Be Caused by Nanadiamonds
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