Astronomers are celebrating NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope’s 33rd launch anniversary with an ethereal photo of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333. The nebula is in the Perseus molecular cloud, and ...
Astronomers have discovered a massive molecular cloud that is also a huge possible star producer - of the celestial sort. The cloud has been hiding in plain sight. Astronomers just needed the right ...
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Astronomers discover giant star-forming cloud, 5,000 times larger than the Sun, near our solar system
A Rutgers University research team in New Jersey spotted the newly found cloud, which was named Eos—after the Greek deity of dawn. Being only 300 light-years away, it is the closest known big ...
While this eerie NASA Hubble Space Telescope image may look ghostly, it's actually full of new life. Lupus 3 is a star-forming cloud about 500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.
Molecular clouds are composed of gas and dust and serve a vital purpose in star formation. Eos, a crescent-shaped gas cloud, is located about 300 light years away from Earth and is the size of 40 ...
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