Be a Clump Scout and Help Reveal Secrets of Stellar Nurseries

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• Explore This Section Science Citizen Science Be a Clump Scout and Help… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science Science Activation Opportunities In the mid-20th century, astronomers discovered strange “clumpy” galaxies filled with mysterious bright blobs – massive stellar nurseries where stars are born at an explosive rate.
• Curiously, these clumpy galaxies were much more common in the early universe than they are today.
• We still don’t know why they vanished.
• The Euclid space telescope, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with critical contributions from NASA, has begun to capture images of millions of galaxies.
• These images – far more than any team of professional scientists could ever catalog alone – include high-definition views of clumpy galaxies that promise to reveal structure within and among the clumps.