Hubble Finds that 'Blue Blobs' in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars

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Ground-based View of M81-M82 Group. Credit: NASA ESA Z. Levay (STScI) and R. Gendler
Ground-based View of M81-M82 Group. Credit: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay (STScI) and R. Gendler

Finding blue blobs in space sounds like an encounter with an alien out of a science fiction movie. But the Hubble Space Telescope's powerful vision has resolved strange objects nicknamed "blobs" and found them to be brilliant blue clusters of stars born in the swirls and eddies of a galactic smashup 200 million years ago.


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