Too WISE to be Fooled by Dust: Over 300 New Star Clusters Discovered

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. (...)Read the rest of Too WISE to be Fooled by Dust: Over 300 […]