Sarah Rugheimer

It's just a cool object.

And Vera Rubin is discovering this first in some of its first observations.

And so...

Yeah, I think it's pretty cool.

It's a fast spinning asteroid.

It's quite large.

You know, it's 1,640 feet.

So it's kind of, you know, a bigger, bigger than a skyscraper.

You know, it's quite big asteroid, but it's solid rock rather than a collection of smaller grains of pebbles and stuff.

Absolutely.

Yeah, yeah, indeed.

And we would want to do that far enough away such that we wouldn't get just all the pieces onto us.

Yeah, so this one I think is really interesting because it's this detection of neutral hydrogen in this cloud that they're calling Cloud 9.

And it's about 16 million light years away, which sounds far, but it's actually not that far.

It's pretty close to us in the grand scheme of things.

But it has 1 million solar masses.

So that means it could contain, say, like 1 million stars.

Or more, right?

Because a lot of stars are smaller than the Sun.

However, they are seeing a maximum of maybe a thousand stars in this.