Astronomers have discovered a new kind of star system: Elongated and clumpy clusters of young, hot, blue stars, formed out of gas blown out of a galaxy as it rams its way through a galaxy cluster.

Faraway blue star cluster shines in Hubble Space Telescope photo. News. By Doris Elin Urrutia published 31 January 2023 NGC 2031 is located outside the Milky Way, about 150,000 light-years from Earth.

A new 527-megapixel image captures two open star clusters, NGC 456 and NGC 460, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. The image uses ...

This week's Hubble image is, appropriately enough, a star cluster called NGC 330 which glitters in shades of red, white, and blue.

Blue stragglers sink toward the center of a star cluster over time. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble/NASA/L. Calçada) These stragglers revealed something interesting about how star clusters evolve , the ...

However, in all open and globular star clusters, a few blue stragglers, stars higher-up on the main sequence than normal, can be found. Christopher Tout, Nature 478, 331–332 (2011) ...

Just like people, huge star clusters age at variable rates depending on their lifestyles, a new study reports. While such star clusters are many billions of years old, some of them manage to stay ...

In binary star systems, a denser, heavier star can siphon mass off of its companion, stripping it into a white dwarf. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI). Recently, scientist Natalie ...

One image with blue nebulosity includes near-infrared light as well as visible light, ... This Hubble image shows the star cluster NGC 1850, located about 160,000 light-years away.

Early risers are in for a celestial treat on July 5, when Venus appears as a bright 'morning star' alongside the magnificent ...

A composite image of the star cluster makes NGC 2264 look like a Christmas tree, NASA said, with a bright green glow and what looks like blue and white sparkling lights.