Anemic Star Cluster Breaks Metal-poor Record

In a surprising discovery, astronomers using two Maunakea Observatories – W. M. Keck Observatory and Canada-France-Hawaii…

Betelgeuse Is Smaller And Closer Than First Thought

It may be another 100,000 years until the giant red star Betelgeuse dies in a fiery…

The Ghost Nebula

The brightest stars embedded in nebulae throughout our galaxy pour out a torrent of radiation that…

Simulations Show Webb Telescope Can Reveal Distant Galaxies Hidden in Quasars’ Glare

Quasars are the brightest objects in the universe and among the most energetic. …

The Puzzle Of The Strange Galaxy Made Of 99.9% Dark Matter Is Solved

At present, the formation of galaxies is difficult to understand without the presence of a ubiquitous,…

The Last Moments Of A Star Devoured By A Black Hole

A rare blast of light, emitted by a star as it is sucked in by a…

Hubble Sees Swirls of Forming Stars

At around 60 million light-years from Earth, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, NGC 1365, is captured…

Astronomers Produce Largest 3D Catalog of Galaxies

A team of astronomers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) has…

TESS Creates A Cosmic Vista Of The Northern Sky

Familiar stars shine, nebulae glow, and nearby galaxies tantalize in a new panorama of the northern…

Shedding Light On Star Formation

Astronomers from The University of Western Australia’s node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research…