Large Magellanic Cloud
Our Galactic Neighbors Shine In New Ultraviolet Pictures
Earth's galactic next-door neighbors shine brighter than ever in new pictures taken by an orbiting telescope, focusing on ultraviolet light…
Rare Eclipsing Binary Stars Provide Refined Measurements in the Universe
Precise observations of a rare class of binary stars have now allowed a team of astronomers to improve the measurement…
Region in LMC Ablaze with Light and Color
Hubble view of star formation region N11 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA/ESA Hubble. Zoom by John…
Astronomers Uncover a Crime of Galactic Proportions
As the Milky Way rises over the horizon at the European Southern Observatory, its companion galaxies also come into view.…
Blowing a Super-duper Celestial Bubble
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m. Zoom by John Williams/TerraZoom using Zoomify When NASA combines images from different…
Special New Panorama Celebrates Hubble’s 22nd Anniversary
[/caption] Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope! On April 24, 1990, HST was launched into low Earth orbit. Now,…
We Are Stardust… We Are Cold Then
[/caption] When we think of stars, we might think of their building blocks as white hot... But that's not particularly…
Incredible Spinning Star Rotates At A Million Miles Per Hour!
[/caption] Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a star named VFTS 102 is spinning its heart out... Literally. Rotating at…
NGC 1846 – Hubble Reveals Peculiar Life And Death Of A Stellar Population
[/caption] About 160,000 light years away in the direction of southern constellation Doradus, sits a globular cluster. It's not a…
Colorful Cluster of Stars Competes with the Tarantula Nebula
[/caption] Who can shine the brightest in the Large Magellanic Cloud? A brilliant cluster of stars, open cluster NGC 2100…