Instead, their large clouds of molecular gas and dust do, triggering furious episodes of star formation near the center of the cosmic wreckAge.
Astronomers believe that new stars may be forming inside Bok globules, through the contraction of the dust and molecular gas under their own gravity.
Bright filaments of molecular gas (amber color) stretch into space near the Cocoon Nebula (blue) in a new picture from the European Space Agency's Herschel space telescope released April 13.
Certainly there have been moments when that thinking has gone horribly awry — atonal music or molecular gastronomy.
