The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system HH 1177 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESO ...
Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...
"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...
Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station, uses his camera to capture stunning images of ...
A celestial body is any natural object outside Earth's atmosphere. This includes stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, dwarf planets and meteoroids.
At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...
Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton telescope have made an unexpected discovery—two supernova remnants ...
The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star-forming region within a nearby satellite ...
NASA has released new cosmic images captured by the Hubble and James Webb telescopes. The images feature stellar phenomena ...
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...