When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...

As per NASA, the rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars ...

Dive into a celestial masterpiece with the Hubble Space Telescope's latest snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud, showcasing the Tarantula Nebula's vibrant star-forming regions. Amidst serene blue ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is located about 1,60,000 light-years away and is between 10-20 percent as massive as the Milky ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the ...

This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached ...

An artist impression of young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Massive and low-mass stars appear within nebulous gas within which they are born. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/S.Dagnello ...

Hubble's image captures WR 25 and Tr16-244, two massive stars in the Trumpler 16 cluster within the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away. This large Hubble mosaic combines images from Wide Field ...