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This diagram shows the 100-million-year-long trajectory of the Smith Cloud as it arcs out of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy and then returns like a boomerang. Measurements made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show that the cloud, because of its chemical composition, came out of a region near the edge of the galaxy's disc of stars 70 million years ago. The cloud is now stretched into the shape of a comet by gravity and gas pressure. Following a ballistic path, the cloud will fall back into the disc and trigger new star formation 30 million years from now. More information: <a href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1604a/" rel="nofollow">www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1604a/</a> Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) |
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Credit/Provider | NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) |
Source | ESA/Hubble |
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Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Macintosh) |
Unique ID of original document | uuid:5D20892493BFDB11914A8590D31508C8 |
Keywords | Smith Cloud |
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