Sometimes it takes a village to find new and unusual objects in space. Volunteers scanning tens of thousands of starry images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, using the Web-based Milky Way Project, recently stumbled upon a new class of curiosities that had gone largely unrecognized before: yellow balls. The rounded features are not actually yellow -- they just appear that way in the infrared, color-assigned Spitzer images.



Space yellow balls?

More images in NASA link.

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/spitzer/citizen-scientists-lead-astronomers-to-mystery-objects-in-space/index.html

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