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

The cloud, named Eos after the Greek goddess of dawn, had eluded researchers because it contains very little carbon monoxide ...

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 ...

Astronomers have found a giant interstellar ... s because the cloud does not contain much carbon monoxide, the molecule astronomers often use to probe these clouds, called molecular clouds.

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

The molecular cloud Eos is one of the single largest structures in Earth’s skies. | Credit: Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA) and Thavisha Dharmawardena (NYU) Astronomers have discovered the closest ...

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 ...

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 ...