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Monstrous Cloud Boomerangs Back to Our Galaxy Artist Concept
NASA/ESA/STScI2016-01-28
NASA
Washington, DC, United States
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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