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 ...

An international team, including researchers from the Department of Astrophysics (DAp), has found in archival data a dark molecular hydrogen cloud located 300 light-years from the Sun, at the edge ...

A vast molecular cloud where stars are formed was recently spotted − unexpectedly close to Earth. The formation, which the team of researchers who discovered it named "Eos" after the Greek ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of the Chameleon I dark molecular cloud. It harbors the "deepest, ...

Just 500 light years away, the Chamaeleon Complex, and in particular its dark cloud Chamaeleon I, is a hotbed of young, ...

Star-forming molecular cloud discovered 'glowing in the dark' unexpectedly near Earth Discovery of the gigantic molecular cloud, which researchers named Eos, could further shed light on how stars ...

More information: A nearby dark molecular cloud in the Local Bubble revealed via H2 fluorescence, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02541-7.

The molecular cloud has an estimated mass equal to that of 3,400 suns and, ... B., et al. (2025). A nearby dark molecular cloud in the Local Bubble revealed via H2 fluorescence. Nature Astronomy.

This cloud is literally glowing in the dark.” ... The molecular cloud’s proximity to Earth provides a unique opportunity to study how solar systems form, Burkhart said.

A nearby dark molecular cloud in the Local Bubble revealed via H2 fluorescence. Nature Astronomy, 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02541-7; Cite This Page: MLA; APA; Chicago; Rutgers University.

This cloud is literally glowing in the dark.” ... The molecular cloud’s proximity to Earth provides a unique opportunity to study how solar systems form, Burkhart said.