The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the ...

Within one of the "toe beans" of the feline footprint exists a subset of "mini toe bean-reminiscent" structures composed of ...

It's the earliest stage of planet formation ever seen by scientists. The new planetary system is taking shape around HOPS-315 ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a spectacular image of the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) shining close to the dark shape of the Seahorse Nebula.

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

A new paper digs into how and why the Tarantula Nebula is making new stars even though it shouldn't be able to.

The night sky is home to many celestial features named after creatures from Earth’s oceans. Among the stars, you’ll find ...

Home > Press release: Three star clusters – all with the same ...

Greetings, stargazers. Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all ...

Astronomers led by Simon Portegies Zwart used simulations to reconstruct how three stars were ejected from the star cluster ...

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.