July 10, 2014 NGC 411, an open star cluster in the SMC Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA NGC 411 is a small open star cluster of about 1.5 billion years old in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf companion galaxy to our Milky Way, which is located some 200,000 light-years away from Earth [continue reading]
September 3, 2013 NGC 346, an open star cluster in the SMC Image Credit: Antonella Nota (ESA/STScI, STScI/AURA), NASA and ESA NGC 346 is an open star cluster within an emission nebula of about 200 light-years across in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) – a small satellite of our Milky Way – which lies some [continue reading]
May 17, 2013 NGC 290, an open star cluster in the SMC Image Credit: ESA and NASA; Acknowledgment: E. Olszewski (University of Arizona) NGC 290 is an open star cluster that contains hundreds of stars packed into a region of about 65 light-years across. It is located some 200,000 light-years away from Earth in the [continue reading]
December 31, 2012 NGC 602, an open star cluster in a star-forming cloud Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA) NGC 602 is a young, bright open star cluster surrounded by N90, a star-forming cloud of natal gas and dust of about 90 light-years across, located some 196,000 light-years away [continue reading]
The Physics and Astronomy team from the University of Southampton are part of a global collaboration – with colleagues in Taiwan, South Africa, Poland, Australia and Italy – that has revealed that bright X-ray flares in nearby galaxies, once assumed to indicate the presence of black holes, can in fact be produced by white dwarfs. [continue reading]
One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way almost got away with theft. However, new simulations convicted the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) of stealing stars from its neighbor, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). And the crucial evidence came from surveys looking for something entirely different – dark objects on the outskirts of the [continue reading]