Giant galaxy spotted forming from 'cold soup' of gas
Astronomers have spotted the Spiderweb Galaxy, a giant object forming from an unusually dense 'cold soup' of molecular gas about 10 billion light years from Earth. In usual scenarios, galaxy clusters grow by cannibalising other galaxies. The Spiderweb, however, is forming from a gas cluster totalling more than 100 billion times the mass of the Sun, at temperatures of -200°C. \n