This Hubble image, captured with the Wide Field Camera 3, shows NGC 1866, a star cluster made up of hundreds of thousands of stars bound by gravity. The image shows two massive stars, WR 25 and ...
The Carina Nebula is home to a million of stars. The image has been formed with ... which can get pulled together into clumps by gravity. Eventually, a clump will get so big that it collapses ...
Within this nebula, the hot core of the star remains—crushed to high density by gravity—as a white dwarf with temperatures over 180,000 degrees Fahrenheit (100,000 degrees Celsius).
As gravity continues to pull the infant ... PhotoView a photo of Rosette Nebula, by Rob Gendler. Most stars are born in groups, called star clusters. You can see pictures of some of these clusters ...
Hubble's image shows NGC 3201, a globular cluster of stars discovered in 1826 by James Dunlop, noted for its size and irregular centre. This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a Cepheid variable star that ...
Star factory': The star-forming nebula W51 is one of the largest "star factories" in the Milky Way galaxy. Interstellar dust blocks the visible light emitted by the region, but it is revealed in ...