How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...

"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

Bow shocks are crescent-shaped structures formed by the friction of solar wind coming from a star and the interstellar medium, the space between stars. V664 Cas is a binary system consisting of a ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

For example, during an explosive space battle scene in Star Trek, a crew member is tossed out into space and suddenly into ...

Both nebulas are the leftover remnants from the last phase of a medium star like our sun. The other small bright bluish ball visible to the left of center in the image is known as Abell 6.