Massive young star clusters burn through the gas and dust that birthed them in roughly five million years, while their lower-mass counterparts take seven to eight million years to do the same. That ...
Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new insights on an extreme ...
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered that a galaxy cluster is wrapped in an envelope of energized particles that's 20 million light-years wide. The discovery raises ...
Listening to starquakes Artistic impression of acoustic waves in the interior of a star. Red and blue represent displacements in opposite directions. (Courtesy: ESO) Stars are cosmic musical ...
This image from the ALMA telescope shows star system HD101584 and the complex gas clouds surrounding the binary. It is the result of a pair of stars sharing a common outer layer during their last ...