NASA astronaut Don Pettit imaged the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as the International Space Station cruised 260 miles ...
If you've ever taken a few minutes out of your day to look at old footage and photographs of astronauts bouncing around on ...
After years of effort, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced they managed to capture the first ...
Gamma rays emerging from neutron stars at the hearts of supernova explosions could solve the mystery of dark matter — in just ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The star in question, named WOH G64, resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, ...
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 ...