Last Updated: ‘Orphan Cloud’ Bigger Than The Entire Milky Way Discovered In Galaxy ‘no-man’s Land’ The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) found a lonely cloud bigger than the Milky Way. The massive cloud was discovered in Leo Cluster (Abell 1367). European Space Agency / XMM-Newton Scientists recently discovered a lonely cloud bigger than the Milky Way. Yeah! you heard it right. The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) found the orphan cloud in a "no man's land" for galaxies. The cloud is full of hot gas with 10,000-10,000,000 degrees Kelvin (K). The massive cloud was discovered in Leo Cluster (Abell 1367), which is located around 300 million light-years from Earth, by a group of researchers led by Dr Ming Sun, a physicist.