Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...
On his fourth flight, Don Pettit is once again sharing the art of astrophotography, capturing and posting pictures of Earth, ...
It is located at a staggering distance of over 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This artistic impression showcases its main features: an egg-shaped cocoon of dust ...
Millions and billions of stars which adorn our night sky often form in groups or clusters from the same nebulae. Gravity ...
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.
Hubble's image of NGC 3603 reveals a young star cluster and a cavity formed by hot blue stars in surrounding gas and dust. The image shows WR 25 and Tr16-244, massive stars in the Trumpler 16 cluster ...
WOH G64, also known as the "behemoth star," is a red supergiant star located outside of the Milky Way in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This photo is the first close-up image of such a distant star ...