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NASA Finds Over 2,000 Young Star Candidates In North American Nebula
An anonymous reader writes "A NASA team has identified about 2,100 young star candidates in a region called the North American Nebula. The nebula is named after its resemblance to the North American continent in visible light. There were only about 200 young stars known before. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has taken images of the new stars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults."
It's actually North America Nebula.
It's named after Lyman Spitzer, who among other things advocated the construction of "extraterrestrial observatories" and described how something like this could be realized with the technology available in 1946.
Why print news about NASA missions as reported by somebody else?
Pretty picture here