Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

Researchers have conducted detailed infrared observations of a recently formed stellar cluster in a giant molecular cloud ...

Open clusters (OCs), formed from the same giant molecular cloud, are groups of stars loosely gravitationally bound to each other. So far, more than 1,000 of them have been discovered in the Milky ...

Molecular clouds in the Small Magellanic Cloud (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tokuda et al., ESA/Herschel)“We sought to understand the formation and evolution of stellar nurseries — molecular clouds ...