News Release Archive: Star Cluster > Open

2009

• 1/15/2009 STScI-2009-05 1. Hubble Snaps a Splendid Planetary Nebula The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged striking details of the famed planetary nebula designated NGC 2818, which lies in the southern constellation of Pyxis (the Compass). The spectacular... (More)

2008

• 7/10/2008 STScI-2008-25 2. What's My Age? Mystery Star Cluster Has 3 Different Birthdays Imagine having three clocks in your house, each chiming at a different time. Astronomers have found the equivalent of three out-of-sync "clocks" in the ancient... (More)

2007

• 1/10/2007 STScI-2007-05 3. Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality" Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that young stellar nurseries, called open star clusters, have very short lives. (More)
• 1/8/2007 STScI-2007-04 4. Hubble Observes Infant Stars in Nearby Galaxy This new image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope depicts bright, blue, newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the center of a star-forming... (More)

2006

• 12/19/2006 STScI-2006-55 5. Celestial Season's Greetings from Hubble Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view of LH 95, located in the Large Magellanic... (More)
• 4/18/2006 STScI-2006-17 6. Magellanic Gemstones in the Southern Sky NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud -- two sparkling... (More)
• 1/9/2006 STScI-2006-03 7. Mystery Solved: High-Energy Fireworks Linked to Massive Star Cluster Call it the Bermuda Triangle of our Milky Way Galaxy: a tiny patch of sky that has been known for years to be the source of the mysterious... (More)

2005

• 11/10/2005 STScI-2005-35 8. Young Stars Sculpt Gas with Powerful Outflows This image of star cluster NGC 346 and its surrounding star-formation region was taken in July 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)
• 3/9/2005 STScI-2005-05 9. Hubble Weighs in on the Heaviest Stars in the Galaxy Unlike humans, stars are born with all the weight they will ever have. A human's birth weight varies by just a few pounds... (More)
• 1/12/2005 STScI-2005-04 10. Hubble Finds Infant Stars in Neighboring Galaxy Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered for the first time a population of embryonic stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a companion... (More)