Giant Gas Clouds Approaching the Milky Way

                                                                                                                                                                                                   CALIFORNIA - giant gas clouds visible towards the Milky Way at a speed of 700 thousand miles per hour. But not to worry, because the cloud requires approximately 30 million years to get to the destination.

This is a case of "what goes up must come down" by astronomers say the Hubble Space Telescope that the cloud space is likely to come from the Milky Way and back like a boomerang. When he returned, they predict there will be a spectacular explosion of star formation, may provide enough gas to make 2 million suns.

Astronomers realized a lot of cloud space, but Smith's Cloud is unique because of the trajectory of the famous.

"The cloud is an example of how galaxies change over time," said Andrew Fox, of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. "He told us that the Milky Way bubbling, very active where the gas can be thrown out of one part of the disk and then back into the others."

Astronomy doctoral student, Gail Smith, found Smith Cloud in 1960. Researchers believe that 11 thousand light-years long and 2,500 light years in width. Fox and his team used Hubble Space Telescope to learn about the chemical composition and origin of these clouds.

How cloud chamber was thrown out of the Milky Way from the beginning and what has made it stick together still unknown. Only further research will reveal it. Astronomers findings appear in The Astrophysical Journal Letters 

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