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Barnard 68 is a Bok Globule
I thought cosmic rays didn't allow clouds to reach 3K. Shouldn't this real ~8K instead?
Magnetic fields can protect objects from cosmic rays allowing some parts of the universe to become heated only by the CMB roughly 3 K. You would expect to find magnetic fields all around a star forming region. Without a citation though, it should be labelled as an estimate and I would just average to 10K. ( Seth ( talk) 02:37, 5 January 2010 (UTC))
Confirmation of Bok's hypothesis had to wait until 1990, when
infrared observations finally penetrated the thick dust of Bok globules to reveal young stellar objects within. It is now thought that a typical Bok globule contains about 10
solar masses of material in a region about a light-year or so across, and that Bok globules most commonly result in the formation of double or multiple star systems. <ref name="Bok globule">
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Did you know column on 22 January 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:
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Barnard 68 is a Bok Globule
I thought cosmic rays didn't allow clouds to reach 3K. Shouldn't this real ~8K instead?
Magnetic fields can protect objects from cosmic rays allowing some parts of the universe to become heated only by the CMB roughly 3 K. You would expect to find magnetic fields all around a star forming region. Without a citation though, it should be labelled as an estimate and I would just average to 10K. ( Seth ( talk) 02:37, 5 January 2010 (UTC))
Confirmation of Bok's hypothesis had to wait until 1990, when
infrared observations finally penetrated the thick dust of Bok globules to reveal young stellar objects within. It is now thought that a typical Bok globule contains about 10
solar masses of material in a region about a light-year or so across, and that Bok globules most commonly result in the formation of double or multiple star systems. <ref name="Bok globule">
{{
cite conference}}
: Unknown parameter |booktitle=
ignored (|book-title=
suggested) (
help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (
link)</ref>