We won't be around to see it, but the cluster is expected to produce 1,500 supernovae in less than 40 million years. Astronomers captured an image of the super star cluster as part of an ongoing ...

A new image shows Westerlund 1, the largest and closest super star cluster to Earth, in stunning detail. It's a bird... it's a plane... it's a super star cluster! NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a deep drive into a highly intriguing and massive young stellar ...

The researchers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe Westerlund 1, a so-called super star cluster with hundreds ... patches throughout the image. These extended structures ...

It's the ultimate example of a "super star cluster." While most such clusters ... star cluster are visible at the top and center of the image. The bright stars in JWST's image all have six large ...

Abell S1063 is so massive that the light from distant galaxies bends around it, allowing it to act as a magnifying glass to ...

Picture of the month: The European Space Agency has shared a dazzling image of Westerlund 1, a super star cluster situated around 12,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ara.

Courtesy of the James Webb Space Telescope, this image features a nebula, N79, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby small galaxy. (Can we call galaxies small?) This is a massive, super-active ...

The first-ever direct image of a supermassive black hole went ... 55-million light-years away in the center of the Virgo galaxy cluster. The new photo further exposes a larger, darker central ...

Around this time last year, NASA released an image of NGC 2264, another star cluster known for its resemblance to holiday greenery which was aptly named "Christmas tree cluster." Data collected ...

The super star cluster Westerlund 1 as seen by Chandra. | Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/INAF/M. Guarcello et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare ...