This artist's concept illustrates the Milky Way galaxy.
Living on the Edge: Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center: Astronomers using data from our Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, have found a cluster of stars forming at the very edge of our Milky Way galaxy.
The newfound young star clusters lie thousands of light-years below the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, a flat spiral disk seen in this artist's conception. If alien lifeforms were to develop on planets orbiting these stars, they would have views of a portion, or all, of the galactic disk.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech (artist concept)
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