Mysterious 'blue blobs' reveal a new kind of star system
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 16, 2022
University of Arizona astronomers have identified five examples of a new class of stellar system. They're not quite galaxies and only exist in isolation. The new stellar systems contain only young, blue stars, which are distributed in an irregular pattern and seem to exist in surprising isolation from any potential parent galaxy. The stellar systems - which astronomers say appear thr