You’ll find this terrific open cluster midway between 5th-magnitude Sigma Cassiopeiae and 6th-magnitude Rho Cas. This group glows at magnitude 6.7, so even through a 4-inch telescope, you’ll see 50 ...

A trio of massive, young star clusters found embedded in a star cloud may shed light on the formation of super-star clusters and globular clusters. The discovery, made with images taken with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of a spiral structure that has red specks, blue specks and a glowing yellowish core. The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared instruments on the spiral galaxy NGC 628, producing the first spectroscopic survey of young star clusters still embedded in the dust clouds where ...

The Euclid space telescope, which launched in July, has a very important task ahead of it: produce the largest 3D map of the universe to help solve two of astronomy's grandest mysteries: What is dark ...

The James Webb Space Telescope observed 19 nearby face-on spiral galaxies in near- and mid-infrared light as part of its contributions to the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS ...

The stars, dust, and gas swirling around black holes could reveal the origin of some our universe’s most intricate structures. By Laura Baisas Published Jan 29, 2024 2:15 PM EST Add Popular Science ...

Galaxy AM 1054-325 has been distorted into an S-shape from a normal pancake-like spiral shape by the gravitational pull of a neighboring galaxy, seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image. A ...

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are massive, dense and compact stellar systems found in all types of galaxies, from dwarfs to massive galaxies. With masses between 10,000 and 100 million solar masses and ...

A new Hubble image offers a detailed look at Messier 88, a spiral galaxy in the Virgo Cluster whose core is powered by a supermassive black hole.