The Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Hyades open clusters could represent the different phases of star clusters: baby, ...

New Hubble Space Telescope data confirms that "blue straggler" stars maintain their youthful glow by siphoning fuel from binary companions ...

Hubble’s ultraviolet survey of 48 globular clusters shows blue straggler stars form mainly through interactions with ...

"Clusters rich in red supergiants are very rare and tend to be very far away, but they play a crucial role in understanding key aspects in the evolution of massive stars." When you purchase through ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A trio of massive, young star clusters found embedded in a star cloud may shed light on the formation of super-star clusters and globular clusters. The discovery, made with images ...

In the most extensive ultraviolet study of blue stragglers ever performed, an international research team used NASA's and ESA ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A Hubble Space Telescope view of the Great Hercules Cluster. | Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble ...

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been observed in the past." When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are 170,000 light-years away in the ...