The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

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Despite being 3,400 times the mass of the sun and just 300 light-years away, the hydrogen cloud had gone unnoticed until now.

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

The dark cloud shown here stretches an estimated 180 light-years across, or more than 60 times wider than our solar system, ...

If dark energy is weakening, as suggested by recent results, then the cosmos is far stranger than most physicists had ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

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around 60 times the size of our solar system. Nebulas like this are so dense that light cannot pass through them, resulting in their dark, ink-like appearance and the fitting nickname "dark nebulas." ...