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Citizen Scientists Reveal Spitzer’s Bubbly Milky Way

10 March 2012

A team of volunteers has pored over observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and discovered more than 5,000 "bubbles" in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy. Young, hot stars blow these bubbles into surrounding gas and dust, indicating areas of brand new star formation.







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