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Stars are giant, luminous spheres of plasma. Galaxies consist of stars, stellar remnants, dust, gas, and dark matter, bound together by gravity. Learn more about stars and galaxies.
An ancient galaxy is churning out stars nearly ...
Scientists have conducted a postmortem on the l...
NASA is funding two projects to search for exoplanets and has enlisted some the help of two big-name partners.
You can see all but a few of the 110 Messier objects in a single night this weekend.
The object in this fascinating space wallpaper is Jonckheere 900 or J 900, a planetary nebula — glowing shells of ionised gas pushed out by a dying star.
Scientists have been stumped on how baby stars can get so big.
This amazing space wallpaper from ESO’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile shows NGC 1637, a spiral galaxy located about 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus (The River).
A new class of supernova represents a miniature star explosion.
Are you a star at star trivia?
Europe’s XMM-Newton space telescope has helped to identify a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the dizzying rate of once every 2.4 hours, smashing the previous record by nearly an hour.
This stunning space wallpaper is an artist’s impression showing an eclipsing binary star system. As the two stars orbit each other they pass in front of one another and their combined brightness, seen from a distance, decreases.
This space wallpaper is a schematic representing how light from a distant galaxy is distorted by the gravitational effects of a nearer foreground galaxy known as Einstein rings.
Schmidt discusses quasars, their impact on astronomy and the anniversary of his seminal find.
The Keck Observatory will be looking for more donations to counteract a freeze on federal grant spending.
Astronomers still lack a basic understanding of how these incredibly bright objects work.
This spectacular space wallpaper is a map of a section of the Universe showing the positions of thousands of galaxies that were measured as part of the VIPERS survey with ESO’s Very Large Telescope.
This space wallpaper combines Hubble observations of M 106 with additional information captured by amateur astronomers Robert Gendler and Jay GaBany. Gendler combined Hubble data with his own observations to produce this stunning color image.
