Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow “Space Balls”

Citizen scientists scanning images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, an orbiting infra-red observatory, recently stumbled upon a new class of curiosities that had gone largely unrecognized before: yellow balls. “The volunteers started chatting about the yellow balls they kept seeing in the images of our galaxy, and this brought the features to our attention,” said … Continue reading Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow “Space Balls” →