This artist diagram shows the Smith Cloud as it arcs out of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, then returning like a boomerang. Hubble Telescope measurements that it came out of a region near the edge of the galaxy disk of stars 70 million years ago
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Title: Monstrous Cloud Boomerangs Back to Our Galaxy Artist Concept
Creator: NASA/ESA/STScI
Date Created: 2016-01-28
Rights: JPL
Album: kboggs
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