Scientists were looking at a list of gas clouds when they saw something strange – five groups of blue stars that were not quite a galaxy and not a known type of star cluster either. These groups of stars are called "blue blobs," and they’re located in the Virgo galaxy cluster. How did these blue blobs form if they didn’t have any nearby parent galaxy where they could form? Scientists realized there are some heavy metals present in these blobs. Credit: Blue Blobs: By NASA/ESA/D. de Mello, https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/02/2231-Image.html Milky Way: By NASA/ESA/STScI, https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way-collide.html Earth: By NASA/U.S. govt., https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99085 Light Show: By NASA/JSC, https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150456/light-show-near-the-limb Mira: By NASA, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3702832 Star birth: By NASA/GSFC – https://flic.kr/p/R2aLk7, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69017572 M45: By Filip LolićPermission, CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2376430 Vega: By Fossart, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45272711 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0: through water: By ESA/Hubble – https://esahubble.org/images/potw1904a/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76167204 neutron stars: By University of Warwick/Mark Garlick – https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1733s/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63436916 dwarf stars: By ESO/L. Calçada – https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1505a/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100142673 Oldest star: By ESA/Hubble – https://esahubble.org/images/opo1308a/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25275489 #brightside Animation is created by Bright Side. —————————————————————————————- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/ Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz —————————————————————————————- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru —————————————————————————————- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me
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