Astronomers have employed NASA's Chandra spacecraft to perform X-ray observations of a massive galaxy cluster known as SPT-CL ...

Globular clusters — dazzling agglomerations of up to a million ancient stars — are among the oldest objects in the universe. Though plentiful in and around many galaxies, newborn examples are ...

European astronomers, including a scientist from Cardiff University, have discovered the largest known star cluster in the Milky Way. The super star cluster known as ‘Westerlund 1’ is made up of ...

Picture of the month: The European Space Agency has shared a dazzling image of Westerlund 1, a super star cluster situated around 12,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ara. It was first ...

The super star cluster Westerlund 1 as seen by Chandra. (Nasa pic) Few super star clusters exist in our galaxy today. They provide valuable insights into the era when most of our galaxy’s stars formed ...

European astronomers, including a scientist from Cardiff University, have discovered the largest known star cluster in the Milky Way. The super star cluster known as 'Westerlund 1' is made up of ...

Known as super star clusters, such compact groupings had been detected only in remote galaxies. Now, astronomers have found a super star cluster in the Milky Way. The discovery will enable researchers ...

In this space wallpaper, a composite image of the super star cluster "Westerlund 1" from 2.2-m MPG/ESO Wide-Field Imager (WFI) observations. The image covers a 5 x 5 arcmin sky region and is based on ...

March 10 (UPI) --NASA scientists have gotten a closer look at one of the largest stars ever discovered in a super star cluster, thanks to images from the Hubble Space Telescope. A new image from ...

[Colin Alston] was able to snag a handful of Mini ITX motherboards for cheap and built a mini super computer he calls TinyJaguar. Named partly after the AMD Sempron 2650 APU, the TinyJaguar boasts ...