 This composite image shows what Smith’s Cloud would look like in the night sky, if it were visible to human eyes. The cloud is on a course to collide with the Milky Way in about 30 million years. The cloud appears in false-color, radio wavelengths as observed by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.


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[b]This time, it's personal. A massive cloud ejected
from the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy about
70 million years ago is now hurtling back toward
the disk at breakneck speed.
The boomeranged collection of gas, known as
Smith's Cloud, was discovered in 1963, and
scientists say it will collide with the Milky Way in
about 30 million years. But a new study looking
the composition of the cloud shows that it shares
a similar chemical signature as the outer disk of
the Milky Way.
Smith's Cloud is 11,000 light-years long by 2,500
light-years wide (for comparison, the Milky Way
is about 100,000 light-years in diameter), and is
speeding toward the Milky Way at nearly
700,000 miles per hour. While it is invisible to the
naked eye, if humans could see it in the night sky,
it would appear to be about 30 times the size of
the full moon, according to NASA. [ Stunning
Photos of Our Milky Way Galaxy (Gallery)]
To determine the cloud's composition, the
authors of the new research used NASA's Hubble
Space Telescope. As light from background
galaxies passes through the cloud, certain
chemical elements inside the cloud absorb the
light in specific wavelengths. The dips in
brightness reveal which elements are present
within the cloud. The researchers looked for
sulfur, which provides a good gauge of how
many elements heavier than hydrogen and
helium are contained by the object.The picture below shows its trajectory and how its gonna fall into the milky way

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Liljeez:
As we knw,The smith cloud was ejected abt 70 million years...this was discovered in the 1960s through complex calculations...as at that time it was just an amorphous ball of gas....earlies scientists didnt really give it most thought,they initially thought it was a failed galaxy....just recently it gained some attention when it was discovered thru the hubble telescope that it was coming back...theres no particular reason now as to why it left the milky way but scientists are postulating that an enormous force blasted it out

Some postulate its a remnant of the milky way formation.

Well its pay back time

johnydon22:
Some postulate its a remnant of the milky way formation.

Well its pay back time

We wont even be alive by den...

No worry time chock