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Also a UK Government programme called G-Cloud. Need disambiguation somehow. --Camayoc (talk) 21:30, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is the UK government G-cloud currently notable enough for its own article? Cliff12345 (talk) 14:43, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Apex Cloud

Several nearby individual low column density interstellar cloudlets have been identified previously on the basis of kinematical features evident in high-resolution Caþ observations near the Sun. One of these cloudlets, the ‘‘ Apex Cloud ’’ (AC), is within 5 pc of the Sun in the solar apex direction.

Apex cloud was identified toward five stars, Aql, � Oph, � Aql, � Oph, and � Aql, and possibly toward Cyg Star. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FareedBaig (talk • contribs) 11:43, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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F-Cloud, G-Cloud, H-Cloud?

What is the meaning of the G in G-Cloud? Are there also A-, B-, C-, D-, E-, and F- clouds? And perhaps also H-, I-, J-, K-, etcetera clouds? It would be interesting to read something about the meaning of the name G-Cloud in the article. DannyCaes (talk) 08:03, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. I had to look around but found a citation that I inserted at the beginning of the article: "Galactic (G) cloud or G cloud." Some citations insert the hyphen "G-cloud." Didn't find any other clouds prefixed with a letter Dmcdysan (talk) 20:31, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Issues with article citations

Researching the meaning of "G" in G-Cloud I didn't find the answer in the existing citations, but instead found it in.^[1] Looking at the other citations, I think there are several other issues:

The name "G-Cloud" has a hyphen that^[2] states a "G Cloud" (no hyphen). Need to pick one name, and "G Cloud" is used in most articles. Changing "G-cloud" to "G Cloud" would also remove the ambiguity with UK government "G-Cloud"

Citation ^[3] is a Colorado University website that summarizes activities of speciic researchers and does not appear to be a reliable source. I recommend deletion.

The 2010 Gilster citation ^[4], not sure if this is a reliable source, and this particular article is a short summary of presentations by Ian Crawford. I recommend deletion. (The information on the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC) is in the 2011 Crawford citation).

The NASA website^[5] is a dead URL, only the archive exists. I recommend deletion. (The information is contained in other cited reliable sources). This is the only citation that uses "G-Cloud" and hence I suggest that the article name be changed to "G Cloud" as used in all other citations.

The citation ^[6] is a dead URL. I recommend deletion.

I will track this article and Talk page to see if anyone has comments in the next month or so. No responses, I will make the above changes.

The article could also be improved by summarizing the additional citations in the article that appear to come from reliable sources. Dmcdysan (talk) 22:26, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Swaczyna, Paweł; Schwadron, Nathan A.; Möbius, Eberhard; Bzowski, Maciej; Frisch, Priscilla C.; Linsky, Jeffrey L.; McComas, David J.; Rahmanifard, Fatemeh; Redfield, Seth; Winslow, Réka M.; Wood, Brian E.; Zank, Gary P. (2022-10-01). "Mixing Interstellar Clouds Surrounding the Sun". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 937 (2): L32. arXiv:2209.09927. Bibcode:2022ApJ...937L..32S. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac9120. ISSN 2041-8205.
^ "NAME G Cloud". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
^ "The Interstellar Medium". Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
^ Paul Gilster (1 September 2010). "Into the Interstellar Void". Centauri-dreams.org.
^ "Our Local Galactic Neighborhood". Interstellar.jpl.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 21 November 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
^ "Short Sharp Science: Spacecraft probes gas cloud swaddling the solar system". Newscientist.com. 2 February 2012.

[1] Swaczyna, Paweł; Schwadron, Nathan A.; Möbius, Eberhard; Bzowski, Maciej; Frisch, Priscilla C.; Linsky, Jeffrey L.; McComas, David J.; Rahmanifard, Fatemeh; Redfield, Seth; Winslow, Réka M.; Wood, Brian E.; Zank, Gary P. (2022-10-01). "Mixing Interstellar Clouds Surrounding the Sun". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 937 (2): L32. arXiv:2209.09927. Bibcode:2022ApJ...937L..32S. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac9120. ISSN 2041-8205.

[2] "NAME G Cloud". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 15 March 2014.

[3] "The Interstellar Medium". Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2012.

[4] Paul Gilster (1 September 2010). "Into the Interstellar Void". Centauri-dreams.org.

[5] "Our Local Galactic Neighborhood". Interstellar.jpl.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 21 November 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2015.

[6] "Short Sharp Science: Spacecraft probes gas cloud swaddling the solar system". Newscientist.com. 2 February 2012.

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