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

Eos may never form stars—but it’s offering a new way to see the invisible parts of our galaxy. The newly identified molecular ...

Ionized atoms ejected from a dying star form the bright swirling clouds of this planetary nebula. Named Kohoutek 4-55, the nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae like ...

4.5 billion years ago the Sun was formed in a swirling cloud of dust and gas called the Solar Nebula. In a paper published by Nature Astronomy journal on April 28th, a team of internationally ...