Star Formation

Old Star Clusters Shed New Light on Starbirth

[/caption] Hovering about the galactic plane and locked in the embrace of a spiral galaxy's arms, open star clusters usually…

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[/caption] It hangs out in space some 160,000 light years away. Its neighborhood is the Large Magellanic Cloud. It calls…

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[/caption] Star formation is an incredible process, but also notoriously difficult to trace. The reason is that the main constituent…

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[/caption] It may be visible to the naked eye, but it took the unblinking gaze of NASA's Kepler space…

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[/caption] Its true there is no sound in empty interstellar space, but the Herschel space observatory has observed the cosmic…

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