A team led by Ignacio Trujillo<\/a>, an astronomer at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, recently tried to find out. Using the Two-meter Twin Telescope at Teide Observatory in Spain, the researchers scanned the outer regions of the galaxy for traces of past mergers with other star clusters, like tidal features, that could explain how the new stars got there. They also probed deep into the galaxy’s star-forming core.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Ultimately, though, the team’s investigation did not turn up any evidence of mergers; NGC 6789 appeared undisturbed. This means the new stars probably formed inside the galaxy itself.<\/p>\n Its central star forming region, therefore, was most likely fueled by leftover gas from the galaxy’s formation, or by pristine gas from outside the galaxy that somehow accumulated inside it and was quickly used up, the researchers wrote in a paper<\/a> published this month in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n \n NGC6789 as seen by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (left ) and the deep image obtained using the TTT3 telescope (right) (Image credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey)<\/p>\n Future observations may shed light on how NGC 6789 has continued to grow with no apparent fuel source, but for the time being, the source of the galaxy’s star making remains a mystery.<\/p>\n![\"Two](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sAbZjhD5mCQMQ4BexcM5mf.jpg\")
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