... Once crowded so closely together that they could sometimes actually collide, these stars are now separated by many light-years, trailing one another at half a million miles an hour through the dark and lonely reaches of the galactic halo. ...
... Ultraviolet images from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer show a speeding star that is leaving an enormous trail of "seeds" for new solar systems. ...
... If you trace the meteor trails backward, they meet slightly north of the 4th-magnitude star Eta ( ) Aquarii. That's how this shower gets its name. ...
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... The analysis of these trails allows the detection of emission from glowing hydrogen gas, giving both the distance and an estimate of the rate of star formation. ...
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... The dark patches are caused by clouds of dust trailing through the spiral arms and blocking out the starlight; they contain vast stellar nurseries where the next generation of stars is being created. ...