About 4,350 light-years away from Earth is an open cluster NGC 6530, a collection of several thousand stars located in the constellation Sagittarius, a cluster located within the Large Lagoon Nebula, which was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna.The stars in NGC 6530 emit massive amounts of ultraviolet radiation, and … Read more
The Hubble Telescope observed a bright shower of stars amid waves of gas and dust in the open cluster KMHK 1231, a group of stars loosely bound by gravity. The cluster KMHK 1231 is surrounded by a crimson nebula of gas and dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and new stars form in the cloud … Read more
The oldest galaxies in the Universe have been studied by an international team of astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, to report the discovery of these oldest galaxies. As seen by Webb, the light from these galaxies has reached us in more than 13.4 billion years, which means that these galaxies … Read more
The SMC is a dwarf galaxy, one of the Milky Way’s closest neighbors, located about 200,000 light-years from Earth, researchers captured part of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) with the Hubble telescope. Portions of the Magellanic Cloud (SMC) form a pair with the Large Magellanic Cloud, are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, and … Read more
The ‘super-puff’ planet was discovered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope in 2012-2014, the existence of three new planets in this ‘super-puff’ class was confirmed, the class of these three stars was named ‘super-puff’,The names have been given because all these three are planets with very low mass and volume ratio. The discovery of these super-puffs … Read more
