On Jan. 9, skywatchers can watch the dark limb of the 82%-illuminated waxing gibbous moon creep across this beloved star cluster, popularly known as the "Seven Sisters." The details vary depending ...

Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 captures the star cluster Liller 1, a 30,000-light-year-distant system that began forming stars over 11 billion years ago. The open cluster Trumpler 14, located ...

Increased conservation efforts and habitat preservation have helped the population rebound. The Hubble Space Telescope's image of NGC 3603 reveals a massive young star cluster formed about a million ...

NASA has drawn comparison between a celestial formation and a holiday wreath, referring to the recently spotted star and dust cloud cluster as a "cosmic wreath." "'Tis the season... to gaze into ...

The beautigul image showcases Westerlund 1 which is the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth. NASA captured this beautiful image of Open clusters which is a group of stars that are ...

Tis the season for holiday-themed star clusters. We've all looked for shapes in Earth's clouds. But what about shapes in space clouds? If you glance at NGC 2264, you'll see very quickly why this ...

This new image of the wreath cluster is a result of combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope. It's a cosmic Christmas! NASA just released new ...

Webb & Chandra capture NGC 602, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic NGC 602 features active star formation in a low-metallicity environment NGC 2264 shows a Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster with ...

NGC 6355: The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 6355 is a galactic globular cluster that resides in our Milky Way ...

SURREY, England — Scientists may have finally solved a decades-old mystery behind why the stars in the Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, move so unusually fast. Turns out, ...

It's a cosmic Christmas! NASA just released new images of a nearby star cluster that resembles a wreath and another that looks like a Christmas tree. The wreath-like cluster is actually named "NGC ...