20160131 - astronomy news

Monstrous cloud boomerangs back 

to our galaxy

 

 

Date:

January 28, 2016

Source:

Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Summary:

New Hubble telescope observations suggest that a high-velocity gas cloud was launched from the outer regions of our own galaxy around 70 million years ago. Now, the cloud is on a return collision course and is expected to plow into the Milky Way's disk in about 30 million years. Astronomers believe it will ignite a spectacular burst of star formation then. 

 

 

 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160128155751.htm