Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the stars in open cluster KMHK 1231 are loosely bound by gravity and surrounded by crimson gas and dust of the nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Globular clusters, which are much larger and denser than open clusters, containing several thousand to millions of stars all formed from a shared ...
The lower “eyelid” of the smaller IC 2163 is filled with new star formations. Stars are hot balls of gas and the Milky Way galaxy contains more than 100 billion of the up to one septillion stars the ...