Globular Cluster NGC 6362 Shows Its Blue Stragglers
Located about 25,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Ara, globular cluster NGC 6362 contains many blue stragglers, stars that appear younger and bluer…
Located about 25,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Ara, globular cluster NGC 6362 contains many blue stragglers, stars that appear younger and bluer…
In this color composite image of the RCW 120 nebula (above), an expanding bubble of ionized gas, about ten light-years across, is revealed. It is…
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The above image of Thor’s Helmet Nebula was chosen as the winner of a competition during ESO’s 50th anniversary celebration. The nebula is located roughly…
A close-up view of the head of the Seagull Nebula, which is located roughly 3,700 light-years away from Earth, was captured in this new image…
A new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the Pencil Nebula, which…
Using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, astronomers captured a new image of globular star cluster…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of astronomers discovered molecules of a simple form of sugar in the gas surrounding a young binary…
Located about 600–700 light-years away from Earth in the Ophiuchus constellation, Barnard 59 forms the mouthpiece of the Pipe Nebula and can be seen in…
Captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope, this new image from the European Southern Observatory is the most detailed ever taken of spiral galaxy NGC 1187,…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope to study a sample of 71 O-type single stars and stars in pairs in six nearby young star clusters in…
Taken by ESO’s VISTA survey telescope, this popular image shows a wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), which resides about 1,350 light-years from…
Using three telescopes (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile, Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii, and the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) in Arizona) to create an interferometer,…
Using the European Space Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of scientists believes that they have detected dark galaxies by observing their glow as…
While monitoring the movement of stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, astronomers discovered an ionized gas cloud with a…