Milky Way's Defensive Halo Blocks Incoming Gas Cloud

Green Bank WV (SPX) Jan 19, 2021

How are galaxies able to keep forming stars and planets? Astronomers from Texas Christian University are using the Green Bank Telescope to reveal more about this process, studying high-velocity clouds that are being pulled into our Milky Way galaxy by its gravitational pull. Stars and planets require large amounts of gas to form, and galaxies can run out of this cosmic building material un