The Beehive Cluster, also known as Messier 44 (M44), is an open star cluster made up of at least 1,000 stars and is one of ...
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13-billion-year-old star cluster slowly gets torn apart by the Milky Way
Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...
The final ESA/Webb Picture of the Month feature for 2025 showcases a festive-looking region filled with glowing clouds of gas and thousands of sparkling stars. This star cluster, known as Westerlund 2 ...
The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...
Jupiter steals the spotlight in January as it reaches its brightest and biggest appearance of the year. The month also ...
Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new insights on an extreme ...
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Milky Way is ripping this ancient star cluster apart, astronomers warn
A globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way is gradually dissolving, according to a new study published on arXiv, ...
A group of about 1,000 stars are coming to Nevada skies this month. See the details on that and the other astronomical events ...
Fig. 1: An image of the star cluster Westerlund 1, captured with the Near-InfraRed Camera on NASA’s James Webb’s Space Telescope. The cluster is largely hidden at visible wavelengths by dust clouds, ...
the constellation Orion with the Orion Nebula Cluster as the central “star” in the sword of Orion, the Pleiades and the Hyades. All three open clusters are highlighted by large yellow circles. Orion ...
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