Artist's impression of tidally disrupted interstellar gas cloud (IMAGE)

University of Sydney

Artist's impression of tidally disrupted interstellar gas cloud

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Artist's impression of a thin gas cloud formed by tidal disruption from a passing star. Scientists think this is one of the possible ways the cold clump of gas detected in the study could have been formed.

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Mark Myers/OzGrav

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