«This newly discovered gas cloud is shaped like
a very long filament, about 200 light years in extent and ten light years across, with a mass about 50,000 times that of our sun,» says team leader, Professor Michael Burton, an astronomer at UNSW Australia.
«Something
very strange appeared to us: a
very nice picturesque coverage of
very long white
filaments, which were
very unusual,» says Roberto Danovaro of Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy, whose team made the discovery using robotic subs.