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Bubble-blowing stars seen in the thousands by public
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16534434A project to spot the "bubbles" that young, massive stars blow in the gas surrounding them has come up trumps, finding more than 5,000 of the objects.
That increases the known catalogue of bubbles by more than a factor of 10.
The discoveries were made by citizen scientists studying images from the Spitzer space telescope, as part of the Milky Way Project.
The much-improved catalogue has been submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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