Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest "super" star cluster to Earth, dazzles in this image released on July 23, 2025. This ...

Italian astronomers have observed five blue straggler stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Their results show that one of these stars has a white dwarf companion. The discovery is presented in a ...

Viewing with the aid of 10x50 binoculars will bring the light cast by a stellar cluster into sharper focus, or even allow you ...

The nights following Sept. 12 are a great time to observe the shifting play of light over the vast Montes Apenninus mountain ...

This week in Starwatch, I want you to go sky high to dig for some of the great visual treasures waiting for your eyes. Now ...

Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten ...

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare ...

On the night of September 12, observers can see the waning gibbous moon shine close to the Pleiades star cluster. Uranus will also be visible nearby in the constellation Taurus.

The James Webb Space Telescope imaged Earendel, thought to be most distant star seen in the universe so far. - NASA / ESA / CSA A quirk of nature that helps magnify extremely distant cosmic objects ...

Christmas-themed imagery knows no bounds, not even in space. NASA has drawn comparison between a celestial formation and a holiday wreath, referring to the recently spotted star and dust cloud cluster ...

Here is everything I saw with a smart telescope in a light-polluted city including galaxies, nebulas and star clusters.