Giant Gas Cloud Boomeranging Back Into Milky Way

Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 15:41 in Astronomy & Space

University of Notre Dame astrophysicist Nicolas Lehner and his collaborators have now determined that the Smith Cloud, a giant gas cloud plummeting toward the Milky Way, contains elements similar to our sun, which means the cloud originated in the Milky Way's outer edges and not in intergalactic space as some have speculated.

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