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This site offers information about the interstellar medium. It discusses what the interstellar medium is, how it has developed, how astronomers know what they know, and interactions with the Solar System. There is both basic and more advanced material. There are also links to other websites with more information.

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Keywords:: dust, gas, particles
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The Astronomy Center

composition of ism

Author: William H. Waller
Posted: July 18, 2004 at 4:00PM
Source: The Astronomy Center collection

Please check your compositional percentages.
They should be more like 75% hydrogen and
25% helium by mass -- not 90% and 10% as I
read during a tour of astronomycenter.org.

Thanks,
Bill Waller
Tufts University

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