Hubble took a long look at a nearby cloud of gas suspected to be hiding billions — BILLIONS — of times the Sun's mass worth of dark matter, and found out… yup.
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Hubble took a long look at a nearby cloud of gas suspected to be hiding billions — BILLIONS — of times the Sun's mass worth of dark matter, and found out… yup. It's a dark-matter dominated cloud that failed to make a galaxy when the Universe was young.
Hubble peers at Cloud-9, a nearby dark matter cloud from the ancient universe
No stars were seen in it, showing it really is a relic of the dawn of the cosmos
Bad Astronomy Newsletter (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)
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Hubble took a long look at a nearby cloud of gas suspected to be hiding billions — BILLIONS — of times the Sun's mass worth of dark matter, and found out… yup. It's a dark-matter dominated cloud that failed to make a galaxy when the Universe was young.
Hubble peers at Cloud-9, a nearby dark matter cloud from the ancient universe
No stars were seen in it, showing it really is a relic of the dawn of the cosmos
Bad Astronomy Newsletter (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)
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Hubble took a long look at a nearby cloud of gas suspected to be hiding billions — BILLIONS — of times the Sun's mass worth of dark matter, and found out… yup. It's a dark-matter dominated cloud that failed to make a galaxy when the Universe was young.
Hubble peers at Cloud-9, a nearby dark matter cloud from the ancient universe
No stars were seen in it, showing it really is a relic of the dawn of the cosmos
Bad Astronomy Newsletter (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)
@badastro I'm sure the cloud tried its best
