One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity.

A. Moitinho / A. F. Silva / M. Barros / C. Barata, University of Lisbon, Portugal; H. Savietto, Fork Research, Portugal. CREDIT ESA/Gaia/DPAC In a cosmic breakthrough, astronomers have stitched ...

Summary Explains the life cycle of stars, from the dense molecular clouds that are stellar nurseries to the enigmatic nebulae some stars leave behind in their violent ends"-- Provided by publisher.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths.

This material, says a team led by astrophysicist Steve Schulze of Northwestern University in the US, constitutes the first ...

Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called an "extremely ...

This research is not only shedding more light on the life cycle of star clusters. The researchers have also demonstrated how well modern theoretical simulations can be combined with real observations.

Orion Nebula, Pleiades and Hyades: The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the same star system. A team of ...

The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion constellation reveals about the life cycles of stars.

Gaia's all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighbouring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars.