We do see clouds of gas this big in the Universe, but generally speaking they don’t display the structure in the image. For example, that one above the galaxy near the top center shows a long ...

Huge clouds of tiny, glowing diamonds are floating through empty regions of the Milky Way, and astronomers had no idea the little shimmering particles were there.

Top, deep B,V,I band (0.44 µm, 0.55 µm, 0.90 µm) image (∼ 7′ × 7′) of the dark molecular cloud Barnard 68 taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in the Chilean Andes.The ...