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Everyone knows the deep sea is dark and full of nightmarish creatures—ones that look like they grew out of H.P. Lovecraft’s subconscious. Which means it should come as no surprise scientists have just ...

Scientists who were surveying a catalog of gas clouds spotted something strange: five "blue blobs" composed of young blue stars in the Virgo galaxy cluster. Unusually, these stars were completely ...

University of Arizona astronomers have identified five examples of a new class of stellar system. They're not quite galaxies and only exist in isolation. The new stellar systems contain only young, ...