Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth.

A Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster inside NGC 2264 reveals active star formation 2,700 light-years from Earth.

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Raton, pronounced “ra-TONE” (not like the rodent, though the name does mean “mouse” in Spanish), sits just shy of the Colorado border like a secret waiting to be discovered by travelers wise enough to ...

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Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

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Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new study. The research, published in Monthly Notices of the ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...