RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 04 January 2022
The dashed line shows the location of Maggie, a vast filament (artificially coloured) of hydrogen atoms that stretches some 1,200 parsecs, or nearly 4,000 light years. Credit: J. Syed/MPIA
A long filament-like cloud of hydrogen atoms lurking on the far side of the Milky Way is among the largest such structures in the Galaxy — and offers a rare glimpse into one of the earliest stages of star formation1. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03848-x Astronomy and astrophysics
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03848-x
