 |  Gigantic storms sweep gas from entire galaxies
 24 May 2011
The Herschel infrared space observatory has detected huge clouds of molecular gas streaming away from the centres of galaxies. Some of them have wind speeds of more than 1000 kilometres per second –“ about ten thousand times greater than hurricanes here on Earth. The storms were recorded with the PACS instrument, developed under the leadership of the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and supported by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
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