Feast your eyes on a spectacular mosaic of all 110 deep-sky objects of the Messier catalog, as captured by astrophotographer ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified emerging young star clusters still breaking free from their dusty birth clouds in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 628. A preprint posted ...

Extragalactic globular clusters millions of light-years away are hiding in your astroimages. Here’s how to find them.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Face-on projections of the stacked surface density distribution of stars and gas in the X-Y plane. (CREDIT: Dr. SungWon Kwak et al ...

From a dark location, the Beehive – or Praesepe – will appear as a faint, misty patch very close to the red planet ...

Also known as "the Seven Sisters," the Pleiades are located in the constellation Taurus, according to Star Walk. Six to seven of its brightest stars are usually visible to the naked eye under good ...

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Vienna has deciphered the formation history of young star clusters, some of which we can see with the naked eye at night. The team, led by ...

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 ...

An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover gravitationally bound star clusters when the universe was 460 million years old. This is the first ...

Young galaxies in the early universe underwent phases of significant bursts of star formation, generating substantial amounts of ionizing radiation, that is, a type of energy released by atoms that ...

As winter’s brilliant stars slip toward the western horizon and the constellations of spring climb higher, Northern Hemisphere observers discover a quieter but richly rewarding sky. Spring is ...

An international team of astronomers reported evidence for the formation of mysterious “super star clusters” Jan. 9 at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C. These ...