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Sa pinaka-unang pagkakataon na identify ng mga astronomers ang molecular oxygen sa galaxy sa labas ng milkyway.
Ang discovery na ito ay ginawa ng mga Team ng astronomers sa Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, sa pangunguna ni Junzhi Wang.
Ang Team ay naka identify ng presensya ng molecular oxygen sa pamamagitan ng pag analyze ng light waves na umabot sa planet Earth mula sa Markarian 231, isang galaxy na nasa 581 million light years ang layu.
Ayon sa Daily Mail:
Ironically, the presence of oxygen in our own atmosphere, along with other gases, have traditionally made it difficult to get accurate light wave readings from distant galaxies, according to a report in Vice.
Those light waves are typically absorbed or redirected by the various gas elements contained in our atmosphere, making it nearly impossible to get accurate readings.
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Ang light waves from markarian 231, bagaman nagmula sa kung tawagin ay quasi stellar object o QSO.
QSOs ay mga distant object na mayroong apperance katulad ng mga bituin pero nag e-emit ng light na naglalakbay sa mababang wave frequency kumpara sa conventional.
Because the light readings from Markarian 231 originated from a QSO, they had a significantly lower wave frequency than standard light waves, which allowed them to pass through Earth’s atmosphere without any distorting effects.
The light wave readings were taken at two different locations: the IRAM 30-meter telescope in Granada, Spain, and the Northern Extended Millimeter Array telescope in the French Alps.
Based on the readings, the team estimates there could be more than 100 times as much oxygen in Markarian 231 galaxy as has so far been observed in the Milky Way.
Over the last 20 years, molecular oxygen has been detected on two other locations in the Milky Way: the Rho Ophiuchi cloud and the Orion nebula.
Humans can breathe pure oxygen for short periods--it's used as a common treatment for some health conditions, including people afflicted with the bends--but our respiratory systems depend on other elements in air, like nitrogen and carbon dioxide, to function normally.
Breathing pure oxygen for prolonged periods can cause permanent lung damage and oxygen toxicity, resulting from blood hemoglobin being overwhelmed with more oxygen molecules than it can carry.
Still, oxygen is believed to be one of the key elements necessary for the development of life.
The team believes further research could help them understand how oxygen distributions factor into the development of galaxies and how that can create some of the necessary preconditions for the formation of life.
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