Giant hydrogen cloud spotted around the Triangulum Galaxy
Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 08:10
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org)—While peering into the nearby Triangulum Galaxy known as M33, astronomers have detected what appears to be a giant cloud of hydrogen around it. According to research published online on May 5 on the arXiv pre-print server, the cloud is extremely large, even bigger than the galaxy itself. The discovery could improve our knowledge about the distribution of gas in and around galaxies.