The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future. By Katrina Miller Stars and planets are born inside swirling clouds of cosmic ...

Eos, a crescent-shaped gas cloud, is located about 300 light years away from Earth and is the size of 40 moons. A vast molecular cloud where stars are formed was recently spotted − unexpectedly ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive hydrogen cloud, known as Eos, shining brightly in ultraviolet light near our solar system. This newly detected cloud offers fresh insights into how stars and ...

The crescent-shaped cloud—which its discoverers named "Eos," after the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn—has long been invisible to us, despite being just 300 light-years away. However ...

The scientists have named the molecular hydrogen cloud "Eos," after the Greek goddess of mythology, who is the personification of dawn. Their discovery is outlined in a study published in Nature ...

Astronomers have found a giant interstellar cloud surprisingly close to Earth. Lurking about 300 light-years from our solar system, this immense cloud of gas and dust is the closest of its kind ...

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It's named Eos, after the Greek goddess of the dawn, and contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas. The surprise discovery of a huge cloud of molecular gas — the stuff that forms ...

4.5 billion years ago the Sun was formed in a swirling cloud of dust and gas called the Solar Nebula. In a paper published by Nature Astronomy journal on April 28th, a team of internationally ...

This cloud, known as Eos, is among the largest structures in the sky and has the potential to reveal new insights into star and planet formation. As large as 40 full moons in the sky when viewed ...