... Gathered at the center of this sharp skyview are the stars of Messier 67 , one of the oldest known open star clusters ... In fact, though open star clusters are usually much younger, the stars of M67 are likely around 4 billion years old, about the ...
... stars greeted astronomers in this false-color Chandra Observatory x-ray image of a ... are generated as matter from the normal star falls onto the compact neutron star ...
... These stars are situated in a star forming region known as N 51. ... stars are so young they shine mostly in blue and ultraviolet light, and so massive their lifetimes are only millions of years ...
... as the Earth turns, stars appear to rotate around Polaris , making it the North Star ... star is near the south spin axis of the Earth, there is currently no South Star ...
... In the center of star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known ... These stars, known collectively as star cluster R136 , were captured above in visible light by the newly installed Wide Field ...
... The star Polaris , commonly known as the North Star , made the very short bright circle near the NCP. ... star Vega was the North Star , and in about 14,000 years, as the Earth's spin axis slowly continues to precess , Vega will ...
... star forming region originate from fine interstellar dust reacting in complex ways to the energetic light and hot gas being ... A small group of stars surrounds S Mon , the brightest star in the picture and a star visible with the naked eye toward the ...