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Astronomers discovered dozens of stellar streams in the Milky Way using Gaia data, offering new clues about galaxy formation ...

A new photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows two star clusters that appear to be in the early stages of merging. The colliding clusters are 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared instruments on the spiral galaxy NGC 628, producing the first spectroscopic survey of young star clusters still embedded in the dust clouds where ...

The night sky is buzzing with celestial activity this month. In addition to the Jupiter opposition, the "beehive cluster" will be visible throughout January, according to NASA. Formally known as ...

A traditional Easter egg hunt is a lot of fun, but it’s also a lot of fun to roll across starry night skies with a pair of ...

Using the 104-cm Sampurnanand optical telescope, Indian astronomers have performed photometric observations of an open cluster named King 6, which resulted in the detection of three new variable stars ...

The winter sky is dominated by sparkling bright stars dotting the Milky Way. Among the myriad star clusters, many that stand out in the eyepiece steal visual observers’ hearts. The popular Messier ...

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 ...

Warm mid-August summer nights offer prime conditions for spotting three magnificent star clusters visible to northern-hemisphere skywatchers in the coming months. Star clusters are gravitationally ...