When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

Astronomers have known about this star for decades and have appropriately dubbed it the 'behemoth star'. With a size roughly 2000 times that of our Sun, WOH G64 is classified as a red supergiant.

One of the most iconic images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope was a zoomed-in portion of the Eagle nebula called the Pillars of Creation, another star-forming region of gas and dust.