The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.

Astronomers have discovered Eos, a massive molecular cloud, surprisingly close to Earth at just 300 light-years away. This ...

Despite being 3,400 times the mass of the sun and just 300 light-years away, the hydrogen cloud had gone unnoticed until now.

One of the largest structures in the sky, as seen from our perspective, has only just been discovered. It’s an enormous cloud ...

The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at ...

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