... Eagle Eggs in M16 . ... EGGs, short for evaporating gaseous globules, are dense regions of mostly molecular hydrogen gas that fragment and gravitationally collapse to form stars. ... The orange dot in the above false-color drawing represents the current location of the Sun among local gas clouds in the spiral Milky Way Galaxy. ... The Lyman Alpha Forest . ... We live in a forest. ... These gas clouds leave numerous absorption lines in a distant quasar's spectra, together called the Lyman-alpha...