[/caption] "Shot through the heart and you're to blame..." There's nothing more powerful than a gamma-ray burst. These abrupt, mega-bright…
[/caption] Astronomers have located a planet-like star that's barely warmer than a balmy summer day on Earth... it's literally the…
About a decade ago, standard cosmological models encountered a slight problem when applied to the Milky Way... missing satellite galaxies.…
[/caption] "I'm forever blowing bubbles... Pretty bubbles in the air..." Its name is Holmberg II, and it's a dwarf galaxy…
[/caption] Take a cloud of molecular hydrogen add some turbulence and you get star formation – that's the law. The…
[/caption] "Swing your partner round and round... Out of the cluster and out of town" While that's a facetious description…
[/caption] Star clusters are wonderful test beds for theories of stellar formation and evolution. One of the key roles they…
[/caption] Was the universe a kinder, gentler place in the past that we have thought? The Herschel space observatory has…
[/caption] Who can shine the brightest in the Large Magellanic Cloud? A brilliant cluster of stars, open cluster NGC 2100…
[/caption]Don't you know that you are a shooting star... Thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of…