"NASA's Hubble Discovers Celestial 'String of Pearls' in Galactic Collisions"

The Hubble Space Telescope has detected "string of pearls" star clusters in the tidal tails of 12 interacting galaxies, each containing about 1 million newborn stars per cluster. These clusters, formed as a result of gravitational forces during galaxy collisions, are very young, only 10 million years old, and are stretching for thousands of light-years. The discovery sheds light on the formation of stars and provides insight into the processes that regulate star formation, offering a glimpse into the distant past and the potential for new generations of stars to exist.