Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured extraordinary images of a rapidly collapsing star system in the Andromeda ...

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed for the first ...

Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic ...

Astronomers have captured a close-up image of a dying star in a galaxy beyond our own—the first time this has ever been achieved. The star, WOH G64, is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite ...

Astronomers use simulations to discover how globular clusters form and reveal a new type of star system near the Milky Way.

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While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one ...