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Too WISE to be Fooled by Dust: Over 300 New Star Clusters Discovered
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 12:57
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A new study by a team of Brazilian astronomers details the discovery of some 300+ star clusters using the WISE space telescope (image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA).
Brazilian astronomers have discovered some 300+ star clusters that were largely overlooked owing to sizable obscuration by dust. The astronomers, from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, used data obtained by NASA’s WISE (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer) space telescope to detect the clusters.
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