NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of globular clusters, dense star groups containing thousands to millions of stars formed from a shared nebula. NASA captured Westerlund 1, the largest ...
It is located at a staggering distance of over 160 000 light-years away in the LargeMagellanicCloud. This artistic impression showcases its main features: an egg-shaped cocoon of dust ...
The Tarantula Nebula is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, 161,000 light-years from Earth. It's also known as 30 Doradus. The starburst galaxy, called NGC 1569, sparkles with ...
WOH G64, also known as the "behemoth star," is a red supergiant star located outside of the Milky Way in the LargeMagellanicCloud. This photo is the first close-up image of such a distant star ...
The first-ever close-up of an extragalactic star looks different than expected and might give a view of what stars look like at the end of their lives.