NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...

Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small ...

If you need to stare into an abyss, it might as well be beautiful.

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning phenomenon happening in the outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy.

Neutron stars represent one of the final evolutionary stages of a massive star, forming when stars with at least eight times ...

Pismis 24 is a small open star cluster located in the core of the NGC 6357 emission nebula, which is about 8,000 light-years ...

A rare, extremely luminous X-ray outburst has been observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is a close neighbor of our own Milky Way galaxy. The observations, made by the Neil ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...