Astronomers take first, high-resolution look at huge star-forming region of Milky Way

A team of astronomers used a newly commissioned radio telescope in South Korea to make the first high-resolution observations of the molecular clouds within a star-forming region of the Milky Way. The first good look at the galactic region indicated large molecular clouds about 180 light years across with a mass equal to about 100,000 masses of our sun.

from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190415122321.htm