Stars are born in stellar nurseries, molecular clouds of cold gas and dust. These clouds contain many times the mass of a ...

Explore the dynamic life of the spiral galaxy NGC 337 as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, featuring a mix of old and ...

The stellar wind from a nearby blue supergiant star is streaming into the black hole, forming an accretion disc about the black hole's axis of rotation. Some of that accreted material is then cast ...

Besides being a point of light, a star is a luminous ... and high-mass stars become supergiants or even hypergiants. At the same time, the brightest stars have the shortest lifespans.

This red supergiant star's vast expanse not only challenges our ... in terms of intrinsic luminosity, belongs to the luminous blue variable star Eta Carinae. Situated approximately 7,500 light-years ...

It's not always this fast-paced with songs like "Walking on a Star" giving an oddly pretty ... to inject a little of himself into every SuperGiant game. From the more acoustic trip-hop Bastion ...

The first quarter moon on January 6. The waxing gibbous moon passes just north of Jupiter in the northeast. The big action is ...

Orbiting Earth at the altitude of about 550 km (340 miles), Hubble observed some very distant celestial objects, such as the blue supergiant star nicknamed Icarus, some 14 billion light-years away. It ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...