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

Molecular clouds are usually detected by tracking light emitted by their carbon monoxide content. For example, the Orion Nebula, which was previously thought to be the closest star forming cloud ...

On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns ... the wave of new stars passing deeper into the great molecular cloud, its creative and destructive energies far from spent.

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Astronomers in northern Chile gathered images of an explosive beginning in the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC-1), an active star factory that lies about 1,500 light-years from Earth, just behind the ...

A vast star-forming cloud of molecular hydrogen that is one of the largest single structures in the sky has been discovered hidden near the solar system. The crescent-shaped cloud—which its ...

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 ...