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It takes a supercomputer weeks to output the properties of one stellar binary. A new study shows AI can do it in a fraction ...
The loose open cluster NGC 7243 makes it worth learning the location of Lacerta the Lizard, now visible in the evening sky.
The unique contrast earned it a screenwriting award at Sundance and led to a bidding war among studios, eventually resulting ...
Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the formation of our universe. However, there aren't very many of them ...
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time, directly detected the merger of star clusters at the heart of dwarf galaxies.
An extreme protocluster gathering of infant galaxies is hiding a vast cosmic fuel tank that is powering 400 million years of intense star formation.
This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a birthplace for billions of stars.
Young star clusters give birth to rogue planetary-mass objects Date: February 27, 2025 Source: University of Zurich Summary: How do rogue planetary-mass objects -- celestial bodies with masses ...
This is an 80-million-pixel picture of the star cluster RCW 38, located 5500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. RCW 38 is a young cluster containing about 2000 stars, and is bursting with ...