Mysterious blue blobs a new type of star system created by a galactic 'belly flop' - Space.com

These blue blobs aren't quite galaxies, but they aren't quite star clusters either.

Scientists who were surveying a catalog of gas clouds spotted something strange: five "blue blobs" composed of young blue stars in the Virgo galaxy cluster.  Unusually, these stars were completely i… [+1980 chars]

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