Massive Cloud on Collision Course with the Milky Way

Massive Cloud on Collision Course with the Milky Way Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 14, 2016 - In 1963, an astronomy student named Gail Smith working at an observatory in the Netherlands discovered something odd-a massive cloud of gas orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. Smith's cloud contained enough gas to make 2 million stars the size of our sun, and it was moving through space at 700,000 mph. For the next 40+ years the cloud remained a curiosity, one of a growing number of so-called h ... more

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