How do you study a galaxy that makes no light? Cloud-9, a gas cloud near M94, holds a million suns of hydrogen yet shows no stars. The deepest image yet, from the Gran Telescopio Canarias, again finds nothing shining — pushing Cloud-9 closer to being confirmed as a truly starless "failed galaxy."
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