Scientists were looking at a list of gas clouds when they saw something strange - five groups of blue stars that were not quite a galaxy and not a known type of star cluster either. These groups of stars are called "blue blobs," and they’re located in the Virgo galaxy cluster. How did these blue blobs form if they didn’t have any nearby parent galaxy where they could form? Scientists realized there are some heavy metals present in these blobs.

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