blow these shells into surrounding gas and dust.
A large team of volunteer citizen scientists 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. This led scientists to suspect that the Milky Way is a much more active star-forming galaxy than previously thought.
These astronomical images were taken with two different cameras on NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope - the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and the Multi-band Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS).
blow these shells into surrounding gas and dust.
A large team of volunteer citizen scientists 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. This led scientists to suspect that the Milky Way is a much more active star-forming galaxy than previously thought.
These astronomical images were taken with two different cameras on NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope - the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and the Multi-band Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS).
