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

In a paper published by Nature Astronomy journal on April 28th, a team of internationally collaborating scientists proved that another giant molecular cloud hangs only 300 light-years away ...

2025 An international team of researchers has discovered a massive molecular cloud that ... years away at the edge of the Local Bubble, a giant, gas-filled cavity in our galaxy that’s about ...

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 ...

Researchers discovered Eos, a molecular cloud, using ultraviolet light. It is near Earth and lacks carbon monoxide. This ...

Molecular cloud is about size of 40 moons Eos, a crescent-shaped gas cloud, is located about 300 light years away from Earth ...

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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2025 The surprise discovery of a huge cloud of molecular gas — the stuff that forms stars — just 300 light-years away is opening up new ways to study the conditions that enable star birth.

Think of the Local Bubble as a giant, invisible cosmic cavity we and our solar system live in that's about a thousand light years wide. If we could see Eos with our naked eye, the molecular cloud ...