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Citizen scientists lead astronomers to mystery objects in space

Volunteers using the web-based Milky Way Project brought star-forming features nicknamed “yellowballs” to the attention of researchers, who later showed that they are a phase of massive star formation....

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Globular clusters make new stars by ‘adopting’ stray cosmic gases

A portrait of the massive globular cluster NGC 1783 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. This dense swarm of stars is located about 160,000 light years from Earth and has...

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