Articles for tag: Cosmic, Galactic Astronomy, Molecular Hydrogen, New Space Discoveries, Space Clouds, Space Science

What Lies Between the Stars? A Massive Invisible Cloud of Hydrogen Discovered Just 300 Light-Years Away

Jan Otte

For centuries, the heavens have been a pattern of twinkling lights, far-off galaxies, and the occasional comet flying overhead across the blackness. But between the stars is something much more mysterious vast, invisible clumps of gas, floating unseen across the universe. Now astronomers have revealed one of these hidden giants, a huge crescent-shaped molecular hydrogen ...