The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

This striking collage compares images of the ... observed the dwarf galaxy Leo P and its star formation patterns. Isolated from larger galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda, Leo P formed ...

This breathtaking view of towering "mountains" and deep "valleys," dotted with shimmering stars, is actually the edge of NGC 3324, a young star-forming region in the Carina Nebula. This stunning ...

Patrick Moore discusses what Herschel, Europe's biggest and most expensive space satellite, will do once it begins its infrared exploration of ... Containing trillions of stars, Andromeda is the ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky ... McConnachie; Image Processing: Marcos Arias) The puzzle is why most Milky ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

An extreme protocluster gathering of infant galaxies is hiding a vast cosmic fuel tank that is powering 400 million years of ...