May 4, 2024, 10:27 AM IST
Image of the cluster Westerlund 2 and its surroundings has been released to celebrate Hubble’s 25th year in orbit and a quarter of a century of new discoveries.
The star-forming region NGC 3603 contains one of the most impressive massive young star clusters in the Milky Way.
The most dynamic detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.
Many colourful stars are packed close together in this image of the globular cluster NGC 1805
Star clusters are common structures throughout the Universe, each made up of hundreds of thousands of stars all bound together by gravity.
This image reveals thousands of globular clusters lying at the core of a galaxy cluster.
This image reveals a glistening and ancient globular cluster named NGC 3201 — a gathering of hundreds of thousands of stars bound together by gravity.
The image shows a pair of colossal stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open cluster Trumpler 16.
This broad vista of young stars and gas clouds in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
A densely packed, roughly spherical collection of stars, it lies close to the centre of the Milky Way.