Far beyond the bright pinwheels and glowing nebulae that dominate space photography, astronomers have finally confirmed something they had only modeled on paper: a galaxy that never quite turned on.
This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 14 million light-years from Earth. (Image: NASA/ESA/Gagandeep Anand (STScI) Astronomers discover starless gas cloud, Cloud-9, with radio and Hubble ...
The object is considered a "failed galaxy" from the early universe that did not form stars. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope helped confirm the discovery. The discovery provides a rare opportunity to ...
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