It's named Eos, after the Greek goddess of the dawn, and contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas.

Astronomers have discovered a new giant molecular cloud (GMC ... The newly discovered cloud spans an impressive 195 light years in length and 65 light years vertically. Its mass is estimated ...

A giant object that has been lurking in the relative galactic vicinity of the Solar System this entire time has just been ...

At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.

A Rutgers University team discovered Eos, the closest large molecular cloud, using ultraviolet light. Lacking carbon monoxide, it was previously undetected. This discovery offers a unique ...

This cloud is literally glowing in the dark.” Eos was found around 300 light-years away at the edge of the Local Bubble, a giant, gas-filled cavity in our galaxy that’s about 1,000 light-years ...

From sparkling galaxies to gargantuan nebulae spanning thousands of light years across, check out these 7 rare images of ...

(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 ...

The details of the study were published in Nature. Eos is a molecular hydrogen cloud, detected using far-ultraviolet light. This marks the first time such a cloud has been spotted this way.

A giant molecular cloud has just been discovered in the Milky Way. This structure, located 23,000 light-years away, weighs the equivalent of 160,000 times our Sun. Using the Green Bank radio telescope ...

interstellar cloud of dust and gas. Typically, Earth and all our solar system’s planets are enveloped in a protective, giant bubble of plasma from the sun known as the heliosphere. Within this ...