Concept information
Preferred term
Superbubbles
Definition
- A cavity hundreds of light-years across filled with a hot gas blown into the interstellar medium by multiple supernovae and stellar winds. Examples are the Local Bubble in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way and the N44 Superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud. (en)
Broader concept
- Interstellar medium (en)
URI
http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1656
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