Moons are locked in orbit around planets. Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around ...

Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached ... seen on the night of February 23, 1987, it captured the attention of ...

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 ...

When you gaze up at the night sky ... at dark matter's presence. The Milky Way's gravity affects two satellite galaxies, the ...

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to ...

astronomers have identified 55 runaway stars being ejected at high speeds from a densely packed young cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky ... star exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy that orbits our Milky Way galaxy. The LMC can be easily ...

This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a birthplace for billions of stars. This Hubble image shows bright ...

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 ...

NGC 4836: An intermediate spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo, it was discovered by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel in 1882. NGC 6355: It is a globular cluster located in the ...

Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy roughly ... for the first young brown dwarfs outside our Milky Way. The study is published in The Astrophysical Journal.