A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has identified four previously unknown primordial open cluster (OC) groups in the Milky Way. Open clusters, loose assemblies of stars born from the ...

Orion’s Belt, a line of three bright stars, serves as a guide to locate other celestial features, such as the Hyades star cluster in Taurus. ・The Southern Cross (Crux), a prominent asterism ...

From WFI-2, we get this gloriously rainbow-tinted image of the stars. The Hyades can be seen just to the upper left of center, and the Pleiades to the right. (NASA/SwRI) Although we can't see ...

An hour after sunset on April 11, look for a picture-perfect pairing of two celestial jewels: Venus and the Pleiades star cluster. Venus will be easy to see with the naked eye as a brilliant ...

The stately and inclined spiral galaxy NGC 3511 is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy is located 43 million light-years away in the constellation Crater (The Cup).

NGC 1858: Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year-old open star cluster. NGC 2031: In the top left corner of ...

Fresh faces in new places can be found all across the NFL after free agency, trades and the draft. Others are still on the same teams, though some are due for a change. Earlier in May, Bleacher ...

Black Hole Debate Settled? Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star Cluster Dec. 9, 2024 — Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars ...