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

The dark cloud shown here stretches an estimated 180 light-years across, or more than 60 times wider than our solar system, and contains the equivalent mass of 250,000 suns.

The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood ... of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. Gravity caused the nebula to collapse in on itself, forming a dense, hot core that ignited to become ...

Circinus West is a cold, dense cloud of gas and dust that stretches out for 180 light-years, around 60 times the size of our solar system ... Despite being a "dark nebula," the Circinus West ...

Eos may never form stars—but it’s offering a new way to see the invisible parts of our galaxy. 4.5 billion years ago the Sun ...