Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...
Astronomers have detected a previously unknown giant molecular cloud (GMC) at the midpoint of the Galactic Bar Dust Lanes ...
Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.
Open clusters (OCs), formed from the same giant molecular cloud, are groups of stars loosely gravitationally bound to each other. So far, more than 1,000 of them have been discovered in the Milky ...
Molecular clouds in the Small Magellanic Cloud (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tokuda et al., ESA/Herschel)“We sought to understand the formation and evolution of stellar nurseries — molecular clouds ...