Star clusters are common structures throughout the universe, each made up of hundreds of thousands of stars all bound together by gravity. Located in the constellation of Dorado, at the very edges of the

This is a Binary Black hole. It’s a system consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other. As the orbiting black holes give off these waves, the orbit decays, and the orbital period decreases.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula, where a maelstrom of star birth — and death — is taking place. Hubble's view shows star birth

The sparkling centerpiece is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2. The cluster resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away from Earth

This colorful Hubble image gives us a window seat to the universe’s extraordinary tapestry of stellar birth and destruction. At the center of the photo, a monster young star at the heart of the Lagoon

Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 3603 is a

Hubble reveals a majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2841. A bright cusp of starlight marks the galaxy's center. Spiraling outward are dust lanes silhouetted against

Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation. This majestic view, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), reveals a region where low-mass, infant stars and their

Creating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas, lanes of dark dust, bursts of star formation, and streams of cast-away stars, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart.

The object was first spotted on wide-field images from the U.K. Schmidt telescope and then studied in detail using the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Lying about 500 million light-years away in the constellation

The Twin Jet Nebula, also known as Minkowski 2-9 (M2-9), Minkowski’s Butterfly or the Wings of a Butterfly Nebula, is a bipolar planetary nebula located in the constellation Ophiuchus. The nebula lies

Variable star V838 Monocerotis lies near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy, about 20,000 light-years from the Sun. Still, ever since a sudden outburst was detected in January 2002, this enigmatic star has

The Sombrero Galaxy (also known as Messier Object 104, M104 or NGC 4594) is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo located 9.55 Mpc (31,100,000 ly)[2] from Earth. The galaxy has a diameter of

THIS USED TO BE A STAR! It's the remnants of a SUPERNOVA. Supernovas happen when massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own weight. The core collapses and sends a shock wave out that heats

The surface of the Sun is 10,000 degrees, and the Earth's core is 10,800-12,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Here's why the core is so hot : Heat from when the planet formed which hasn't been lost yet. Frictional

We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. We are in the universe and the universe is in us. -Neil Tyson. We would not exist without

Astronomers predict that two stars in the Cygnus constellation will collide and create a rare Red Nova Explosion so bright in the sky it will be visible to the naked eye! The two stars set to collide are

This is a huge step toward finding biological signs of alien life. This many planets orbiting the same star. The system is called Trappist-1 and it's 40 light years away or 235 trillion miles. 3 of these

A leap second have been added to 2017 to compensate for a slowdown in Earths rotation. Even though it's a small difference in time, (taking 1,000 years to cause a 1 hour difference), if it wasn't corrected,