Astronomers from Georgia State University have found an explanation for the strange occurrence of massive stars located far from their birthplace in the disk of ourMilky WayGalaxy. Stars more massive than the Sun have very hot cores that drive nuclear energy generation at very high rates. The...
The nebula lies in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy and appears in the region of Cassiopeia’s W, near Schedar (Alpha Cas). It has an apparent size of 35 arcminutes. NGC 281 was discovered by the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard on November 16, 1881. The nebula is ...
Our solar system, galaxy, and universe can all be mapped, despite their vast complexity. Learn about Earth's location in the solar system, and explore details of how the Milky Way, galaxies, clusters, and even the 'center of the universe' are mapped. ...
This cluster of stars is instantly recognizable in the night sky and has a way of captivating those who view them. The bright blue stars of the Pleiades are thought to be hundreds of times more luminous than our sun. In Greek mythology, the Pleiades were the seven sister-nymphs, companions...
It is one of the most massive clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. The cluster’s age is estimated to be around 12.5 billion years. This Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of a dense swarm of stars shows the central region of the globular cluster NGC 2808 and its three generations of ...
Related Post: Milky Way Photography for Beginners. In the night sky, the 16th largest constellation is Cygnus itself as it has an area of 804 square degrees. To be exact, it lies between the latitudes of +90 and -40 and can be seen in the fourth quadrant. Due to its mythical origins...
5-star star system in the constellationCamelopardaliswith primary and secondary components of magnitudes 5.00 and 6.21, separated by 3 arcminutes. Nebulae Discover the brightest nebulae currently visible in the night sky. Beehive (M44) Open Cluster ...
Thousands upon millions of comets are believed to be "holding up" in the Oort Cloud, waiting to be sent on a journey to the Sun. They are not clustered in one area of the galaxy but surround the entire Solar System like a cloud. No one has ever seen the Oort Cloud, so no one ...
of the most massive and most luminous stars of its type. WOH G64 does not belong to the Milky Way galaxy, but to one of its satellites, theLarge Magellanic Cloud(LMC). With a visual magnitude of 18.46, the star is invisible to the unaided eye and cannot be seen in amateur telescopes...
Pisces contains a single Messier object, the spiral galaxyMessier 74(M74, NGC 628) and has ten stars with known planets. The brightest star in the constellation isAlpherg(Eta Piscium), with an apparent magnitude of 3.62. There is one meteor shower associated with the constellation; the Pisci...