Tag: Star Clusters

Cassiopeia and its distinctive W-shaped asterism rise above the erupting volcano Mount Etna on the island of Sicily, Italy. Credit: ...

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Clow, M.; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand This new view of the “Christmas tree cluster” ...

This new image of star cluster NGC 602, released on Dec. 17, 2024, combines data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with a ...

The conjunction of Venus and the Beehive was a beautiful, if not dazzling, sight as seen from the author’s home ...

NGC 1514 The Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514) was discovered by German-born English astronomer William Herschel in 1790. Credit: Eric ...