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Bubbles in the Milky Way Galaxy
March 9, 2012 | NASA

“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.” Quoted from the NASA press release.


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