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A newly found, huge cloud near our solar system probably won't form stars, but will rather disperse as part of a feedback cycle that regulates star formation.
One of the largest structures in the sky, as seen from our perspective, has only just been discovered. It’s an enormous cloud ...
(Thomas Müller [HdA/MPIA] and Thavisha Dharmawardena [NYU]) (CN) — Astronomers have spotted a giant cloud of hydrogen gas hiding just 300 light-years from Earth — one of the closest ever found, and ...
2025 The surprise discovery of a huge cloud of molecular gas — the stuff that forms stars — just 300 light-years away is opening up new ways to study the conditions that enable star birth.