Astronomers using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, have found a cluster of stars forming at the very edge of our Milky Way galaxy. Read more
Astronomers find newborn stars at the edge of the Galaxy
The new clusters, named Camargo 438 and 439, are within the molecular cloud HRK 81.4-77.8. This cloud is thought to be about 2 million years old and is around 16000 light years beneath the galactic disk, an enormous distance away from the usual regions of star formation, in the direction of the constellation of Cetus. Read more