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Dark Cloud of Gas Found Close to the Solar System, Here's Why This Matters

2025-05-14 Science & Technology
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@richardoldfield6714 2025-05-14

When the video title said "close to the Solar System", I was thinking in terms of a few billion miles from it - not 300 light years ..lol

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@ThanosElohim 2025-05-15

Reminds me of this… Fred Hoyle wrote *The Black Cloud*, a 1957 science fiction novel about a sentient dark cloud of gas approaching the Solar System.

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@goontheracoon 2025-05-15

scientists: "what are you doing?" gas cloud: "hmh?!" scientists: "what are you doing!" gas cloud: "Nothing.. Me? Just hanging around."

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@Shacthulhu 2025-05-14

Made it to class on time today! Thank you, Anton!

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@Mystic_Chase 2025-05-14

Poor Eos. Everyone knows it's better to burn out than fade away.☁️

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@dexterisabo3137 2025-05-15

Reminds me of rain and how rain drops form. Where water vapor starts it's life as rain by first coalesing around a speck of dust, stars start their life by coalesing around the densest parts of the H2 cloud. It's not a star, it's a stardrop. And it makes sense for the star forming regions to be at the edges of the bubble when the stars in the center of the bubble have already become stars. They gobbled up all the H2, burst into flames, and immediately started blowing everything away from itself with its stellar/photonic wind. That would blow the remaining H2 to the fringed where it would pile up like snow on the side of the road after a snowplow drove pass.

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@aaront3049 2025-05-15

Good night Anton and friends. Im thankful to spend another one learning about the wonders of space and science :)

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@fpadams 2025-05-15

Today I learned: In a star-forming gas cloud, only 2% of the gas can collapse into stars before their energy output disperses the other 98% of the gas, which goes back into the long cycle of gas cloud formation. Cool .

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@laithamekir5778 2025-05-14

Hello wonderful person. Thanka for todays class. ❤

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@Loreweavver 2025-05-15

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