Named Eos, the cloud of gas would appear huge in the night sky if visible to the naked eye and could shed light on solar ...

It's named Eos, after the Greek goddess of the dawn, and contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas.

“This thing was pretty much in our cosmic backyard, and we’ve just missed it,” he added. Molecular clouds are composed of gas and dust from which hydrogen and carbon monoxide molecules can for ...