Star Formation

Dust in the Wind

[/caption] The stellar wind, that is! This beautiful image, taken by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WISE) shows a vast ring…

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[/caption] Two stars have been discovered locked in a mutually-destructive embrace, a relationship that will end with both losing…

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[/caption] Almost a century ago, astronomers Shapley and Melotte began classifying star clusters. This rough, initial go-around took in the…

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[/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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