Despite being 3,400 times the mass of the sun and just 300 light-years away, the hydrogen cloud had gone unnoticed until now.

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.

Astronomers have discovered Eos, a massive molecular cloud, surprisingly close to Earth at just 300 light-years away. This ...

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

A giant object that has been lurking in the relative galactic vicinity of the Solar System this entire time has just been ...

Scientists have uncovered a colossal, previously hidden hydrogen cloud, named Eos, just 300 light-years from Earth — the ...

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Behind the dark boundaries of the molecular cloud, a tapestry of distant stars emits an orange background glow. Related: Did ...

Firefly petunias, genetically modified with bioluminescent mushroom DNA, glow in the dark. The glow ... the theory that the plant works like those solar lights in your yard that are charged ...

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