Monstrous cloud boomerangs back to our galaxy

Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 18:31 in Astronomy & Space

New Hubble telescope observations suggest that a high-velocity gas cloud was launched from the outer regions of our own galaxy around 70 million years ago. Now, the cloud is on a return collision course and is expected to plow into the Milky Way's disk in about 30 million years. Astronomers believe it will ignite a spectacular burst of star formation then.

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