The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...
Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) took a stunning image of the star cluster known as Westerlund 2, located in ...
Among life’s most profound experiences is being able to witness the Milky Way stretching across the dark canvas of the sky. In fact, the stars, nebula.
Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth.
This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree.
A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course ...
The NGC 2264 is a vast stellar complex located in the Monoceros constellation, about 2,600 light-years away. It includes two ...
Astronomers have presented a unique cosmic structure resembling a Christmas tree, formed by new stars in the NGC 2264 region, ...
A Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster inside NGC 2264 reveals active star formation 2,700 light-years from Earth.
The state-of-the-art data sonification system translates pixels of celestial objects into sounds, thereby composing melodious classical symphonies.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations ...
For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has been capturing images we never imagined possible, revealing ...