Peculiar icy objects in outer reaches of the Milky Way perplex astronomers

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded icy objects" thousands of light years from Earth. Takashi Shimonishi, Itsuki Sakon and Takashi Onaka have posted a paper describing their discoveries and offering possible ideas regarding their nature on the arXiv preprint server.