The Realm of Buried Giants – Star Formation Region RCW 106
This new ESO VLT Survey Telescope image shows the vast nebula where giant stars were born, known as RCW 106. The brightest part appears just…
This new ESO VLT Survey Telescope image shows the vast nebula where giant stars were born, known as RCW 106. The brightest part appears just…
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics finds that the star formation processes in the outer spiral regions of the galaxy NGC…
Using Hubble data, a team of astronomers has for the first time found young populations of stars within globular clusters that have apparently developed courtesy…
A new infrared study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics examined the cores of star-forming dust clouds in various stages of development, enabling astronomers to…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope views a newborn star shooting twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe. Just in…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers has captured the most detailed images ever of the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris. These new…
In a newly published study, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics counted up the new stars in RCW106 and five other local regions of…
A new study led by Yale University reveals a cluster of young stars that develop in distinct, episodic spurts. It is the first time astronomers…
A team of astronomers has discovered the hottest and most massive double star system to date where the two components are in contact and sharing…
This newly released Hubble image shows the starburst galaxy Messier 94, which is roughly 16 million light-years away. This image shows the galaxy Messier 94,…
Using Hubble data and new images from SPHERE, astronomers have identified sub-structures and tracked changes within the debris disk that surrounds AU Microscopii. Like many…
Astronomers have discovered giant holes, or cavities, in the hot gas that pervades the Phoenix Cluster, revealing new details about this remarkable system. Galaxy clusters…
This newly released ESO image shows the rose-colored star-forming region Messier 17. This new image of the star-forming region Messier 17 was captured by the…
Astronomers reach an important milestone in the study of cluster mergers, showing that member galaxies are still gas-rich and thus can form stars and stimulate…
Using Kepler data, a team of astronomers has observed a white dwarf star displaying massive arrhythmic outbursts, which broke the star’s regular pulse and significantly…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe’s largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak…
This short video from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a three-dimensional perspective of nebula Gum 29 and the star cluster Westerlund 2. Celestial Fireworks: Star…
This newly released ESO image shows star cluster NGC 2367, an infant stellar grouping that lies at the center of an immense and ancient structure…