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 ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University have found a young galaxy cluster that appears far ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

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 ...

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant progress in understanding how three-dimensional (3D) layered structures form ...

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 ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects -- celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets -- form? An international team of astronomers has used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic ...

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 ...

Spring means it’s time to look up into our night sky and find one of the oldest objects in our galaxy: the M3 Cluster. NASA and other sky experts call this group of ancient stars “a truly distant ...

The article details various types of deep-sky objects observable by amateur astronomers, including double stars, variable stars, open and globular star clusters, emission, planetary, and reflection ...