Far from home: Wayward star cluster is both tiny and distant
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - 16:00
in Astronomy & Space
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.