This image from the APEX telescope, of part of the Taurus Molecular Cloud, shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long. Could life exist in molecular clouds like this one?

The molecular cloud was detected 300 light-years from Earth, closer than any other similar, star-forming clouds. - Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA)/Thavisha Dharmawardena (NYU) Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory ...

A far infrared image of the Small Magellanic Cloud as observed by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory. Circles indicate the positions observed by the ALMA telescope, with the ...

This month, we’ll be pointing our telescopes toward the Perseus spiral arm of our galaxy near the galactic anticenter. Specifically, we’ll stay within the 12°-by-12° boundary of the Perseus Molecular ...

Molecular cores are dense condensations within molecular clouds, in which stars are born. Guoyin Zhang et al. obtained 350 μm dust continuum data using the SHARC-II camera at the Caltech Submillimeter ...

Astrophysicists have discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected. The scientists ...

Molecular clouds are composed of gas and dust and serve a vital purpose in star formation. Eos, a crescent-shaped gas cloud, is located about 300 light years away from Earth and is the size of 40 ...

Around 2.5 million light-years away from Earth, the Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 or M31, is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. Besides stars, it contains molecular clouds of gas ...

To understand how the universe was formed and how we got here, ancient stars are some of the best objects to study — yet astronomers know surprisingly little about the conditions in which they were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The molecular cloud was detected 300 light-years from Earth, closer than any other similar, star-forming clouds. - Thomas Müller ...

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