80 million pixels reveal brilliance of a star cluster
Prior to that 1915 discovery, scientists believed that all the stars in the night sky belonged to a single galaxy, and they had no concept of the scale of the wider universe. But in the century ...
Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Kristen McQuinn Most small galaxies that stopped making new stars in the early universe never resumed operations. Something caused their celestial factories to shutter ...
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are the faintest type of galaxy in the universe. Typically containing just a few hundred to a thousand stars—compared with the hundreds of billions that make up the ...
For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 ...
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