Astronomers have discovered a massive hydrogen cloud, known as Eos, shining brightly in ultraviolet light near our solar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 newly found cloud, named Eos after the Greek goddess of dawn, is one of the largest known structures in the sky and one ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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