Arizona astronomers have found a collection of stars that really shouldn’t exist. They’re located in the debris of NGC 2782, which is the result of a merger between a Milky Way-sized galaxy and a smaller galaxy. These kinds of mergers are very common in the Universe; however, they usually leave behind debris that doesn’t contain the right ingredients to form stars – neutral hydrogen gas and molecular gas. But NGC 2782 has regions with stars that formed after the collision.