Hydrogen gas clouds

'Magnetic Force Field' Keeps Hydrogen Gas Cloud Alive During Collisions With the Milky Way

The massive Smith Cloud of hydrogen gas is on a collision course with the Milky Way galaxy, and while most gas clouds are destroyed in our galaxy's outer layer of hot ionized gas, scientists have discovered the cloud has a special line of defense: a "magnetic forcefield."

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