The Orion Nebula, the Pleiades and the Hyades open clusters could represent the different phases of star clusters: baby, ...

Orion, Pleiades, and Hyades may be stages of one star system’s life, revealing how star clusters form and change.

The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the ...

A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the M67 cluster ... which is a large, ... Scientists find rare double-star ...

Across the sky, more than 100 stellar-mass black holes are hidden within a large cluster of stars. The star cluster is named Palomar 5, and it stretches out over 30,000 light-years. It is located ...

Astronomers have discovered a young gas giant planet orbiting one star in a fascinating double star system—while the other ...

It involves a bright planet passing by a large and diffuse star cluster visible with the naked eye. On the evening of June 13, 2023, I went out as twilight faded to observe the conjunction of ...

A small, bizarre cluster of a million young stars, enshrouded in thick gas and dust in a nearby dwarf galaxy, has been confirmed by Jean Turner, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy, and her ...

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 ...

Typically it takes a few hundred million years for a cluster of stars that are born together to break up, gradually nudged apart by gravitational tidal forces from each other and other passing ...