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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.
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A new study challenges the existence of dark matter in the universe.
The Messier 78 nebula is located just north of Orion's Belt.
Modern constellations were invented to fill up some of the large gaps in the sky filled with dim stars.
A new photo from the Spitzer Space Telescope shows a whole new side of the galaxy.
The NGC 6604 star cluster is located in the constellation of Serpens (The Serpent).
Within the constellation of Piscis Austrinus lies the star Fomalhaut. It is surrounded by a huge disc of dust - creating its comparison to 'the Eye' made famous by the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Europe'e ALMA telescope captured this intimate view.
New observations help clear up the mysterious ways red giant stars shrivel up.
Amateur astrophotographers took these pictures of the glorious night sky.
Centaurus A likely formed when a spiral galaxy and an elliptical galaxy merged.
The galactic monsters devour one star in a binary system and eject the other one.
Researchers joined up five radio telescopes, three in Australia and two in South Korea.
April 2012 witnesses Saturn at opposition, a crescent-phase Venus, the Lyrid Meteor Shower – where up 20 meteors per hour may be seen– and, for those with telescopes and dark skies, the Leo Triplet galaxies.
NASA's NuSTAR mission will peer through the dust and gas to see what what lies in the centers of other galaxies.
NASA's Kepler Mission, a space-based telescopic camera, has discovered planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun. Though an Earth-like planet in the "Goldilocks Zone" hasn't yet been positively identified, astronomers believe it's just a matter of time.
The new photo captures perhaps 1 percent of our galaxy's stars.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is designed to study objects in infrared light.
The new image shows more than 200,000 galaxies that each contains billions of stars.
The globular cluster at the center of our galaxy contains stars twice as old as the sun.
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