There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.
XMM-Newton finds two stray supernova remnants
When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of ...
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NASA’s Hubble shows off sparkling Tarantula Nebula, where the biggest stars are born
NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...
Hubble studies the Tarantula Nebula's outskirts
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...
7 most beautiful star cluster images shared by NASA Hubble Telescope
Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...
Hubble Telescope Gives A Tour Of Tarantula Nebula Lying 1,60,000 Light-Years Away; Watch
The Large Magellanic Cloud is located about 1,60,000 light-years away and is between 10-20 percent as massive as the Milky ...
5 most beautiful photos of dead stars shared by NASA
As per NASA, the rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars ...
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Dancing in the Dark
This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached ...
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Young stars in the Milky Way's back yard challenge our understanding of how they form
An artist impression of young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Massive and low-mass stars appear within nebulous gas within which they are born. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/S.Dagnello ...
10 stunning images of stars by NASA Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble's image captures WR 25 and Tr16-244, two massive stars in the Trumpler 16 cluster within the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away. This large Hubble mosaic combines images from Wide Field ...
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Hubble Studies Tarantula Nebula's Outskirts
ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...