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'Lonely cloud' bigger than Milky Way found in a galaxy 'no-man's land'. The so-called orphan or lonely cloud is full of hot gas with temperatures of 10,000-10,000,000 degrees Kelvin (K) and a total mass 10 billion times the mass of the sun. That makes it larger than the mass of small galaxies.


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