Star Clusters

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$Stars in a star cluster shine brightly blue, with four-pointed diffraction spikes radiating from them. The center shows a small, crowded group of stars while a larger group is partially visible on the right side of the image. The nebula is mostly thick, smoky clouds of gas, lit up in blue tones by the stars. Clumps of dust hover before and around the stars; they are mostly dark but lit around their edges where the starlight erodes them.$

29 September 2025

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released on Sept. 12, 2025, features a cloudy starscape from an impressive star cluster.…

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In what appears as a celestial dreamscape, a blue and black sky filled with brilliant stars covers about two thirds of the image. The stars are different sizes and shades of white, beige, yellow, and light orange. Across the bottom third of the scene is a craggy, mountain-like vista with spire-like peaks and deep, seemingly misty valleys. These so-called mountains appear in varying shades of orange, yellow, and brown. The soaring spires are going up, up, up, where a wispy, ethereal white cloud stretches horizontally across the scene. Steam appears to rise from the mountaintops and join with this cloud. At the top, right corner of the image, a swath of orange and brown structure cuts diagonally across the sky.

11 September 2025

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this sparkling scene of star birth in an image released on Sept.…

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Bluish clouds of gas are wound through with red-glowing lanes and filaments of dust.. The clouds contain cavities filled with stars and many more stars are visible in the background and scattered throughout the clouds. The clouds are concentrated in the upper right and the lower middle of the image. Tiny background galaxies are also sprinkled throughout the image.

8 July 2025

A riotous expanse of gas, dust, and stars stake out the dazzling territory of a duo of star…

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Bright stars cluster against a black background. The stars are more densely concentrated in the center of the image. The stars appear mostly white, but bright red and blue stars are also visible sprinkled throughout the image.

3 July 2025

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters…

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