Instead, Burkhart and her team looked for far ultraviolet emissions of glowing molecules of hydrogen. "This cloud is literally glowing in the dark,” Burkhart said. Burkart and her team were able to ...

What makes the discovery stand out, researchers say, is how it was made: by detecting the cloud’s faint glow in far-ultraviolet light, something scientists weren’t even sure was possible. “This is the ...

"This cloud is literally glowing in the dark." The researchers are hoping the discovery could allow them to better understand the interstellar medium, the space between stars, and how molecular ...