Now you see me: COIN extends the open cluster census in the solar neighborhood with Gaia DR2

Map of the plane of the Milky Way projected on the sky showing previously known open clusters (gray points) and the new COIN-Gaia open clusters (yellow dots). The Cosmostatistics Initiative (COIN), an international collaboration that consists of experts in astrophysics, statistics and machine learning, has discovered 41 new groups of stars known as “open clusters” […]