Far from home: Wayward cluster is both tiny and distant
Hilo HI (SPX) Mar 05, 2015 - Like the lost little puppy that wanders too far from home, astronomers have found an unusually small and distant group of stars that seems oddly out of place. The cluster, made of only a handful of stars, is located far away, in the Milky Way's "suburbs." It is located where astronomers have never spotted such a small cluster of stars before. The new star cluster was discovered by Dongwon ... more

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