Science
Clouds of star-forming gas are being shot ‘like bullets’ across the galaxy – Live Science
Astronomers are still looking for the “smoking gun” that blasted these clouds through space.
There’s a flood of scorching nuclear wind pouring out of our galaxy’s center, and astronomers have discovered two tiny islands of unborn baby stars caught in the riptide.
These two hunks of cosmic driftwood are actually freezing-cold clouds of hydrogen
gas, each one as frigid as Pluto
(about minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 240 degrees Celsius) and carrying the mass of more than 200 suns. In calmer waters, they could be stellar nurseries those ultra-dense clouds of gas where molecules…
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