The Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Hyades open clusters could represent the different phases of star clusters: baby, ...
The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...
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New Hubble observations explain how blue straggler stars form, showing that binary systems in low-density clusters play a key role ...
The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...
Astronomers from the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) in Cairo, Egypt, have investigated a ...
Spring means it’s time to look up into our night sky and find one of the oldest objects in our galaxy: the M3 Cluster. NASA and other sky experts call this group of ancient stars “a truly distant ...
the constellation Orion with the Orion Nebula Cluster as the central “star” in the sword of Orion, the Pleiades and the Hyades. All three open clusters are highlighted by large yellow circles. Orion ...
Fig. 1: An image of the star cluster Westerlund 1, captured with the Near-InfraRed Camera on NASA’s James Webb’s Space Telescope. The cluster is largely hidden at visible wavelengths by dust clouds, ...
In the most extensive ultraviolet study of blue stragglers ever performed, an international research team used NASA's and ESA ...
A group of about 1,000 stars are coming to Nevada skies this month. See the details on that and the other astronomical events ...