The superbubble is gigantic, measuring around 210 by 140 light-years across.

A new photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows two star clusters that appear to be in the early stages of merging. The colliding clusters are 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista in the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, the ...

The gas shell surrounding N44’s superbubble has intrigued astronomers for over half a century. It is energized by ultraviolet ...

The subject of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an ancient inhabitant of our galaxy. This sparkling scene features a globular cluster: a collection of tens of thousands to millions of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stars don't start out fully formed. Instead, they begin when clouds of diffuse gas and dust clump together, becoming denser than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's the final act for a star in the constellation Cygnus, some 1,000 light-years away. But this star is not dying without one ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been our most reliable eye in the sky, allowing us to peer deep into the inky cosmic void like never before. Unfortunately, it’s getting a little long in the tooth. And ...

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What we know so far: Stars, like all living organisms, age according to predictable physical laws – or so astronomers once thought. Yet scattered throughout the Milky Way's oldest star clusters are ...