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Massive Globular Star Cluster : NGC 1866

Star clusters are common structures throughout the universe, each made up of hundreds of thousands of stars all bound together by gravity. Located in the conste...

A Pair of Supermassive Black Holes are Stuck in a Collision ...

This is a Binary Black hole. It’s a system consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other. As the orbiting black holes give off these waves, the...

Titanic Supernova of Eta Carinae star

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula, where a maelstrom of star birth — and death — is ta...

Giant Cluster Stars - Westerlund 2

The sparkling centerpiece is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2. The cluster resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29,...

Herschel 36 Giant Star

This colorful Hubble image gives us a window seat to the universe’s extraordinary tapestry of stellar birth and destruction. At the center of the photo, a monst...

NGC 3603

Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of the most massive young star clusters in the ...

NGC 2841

[](https://alpha.steepshot.io/post/web-2018-2-4-16-43-31) - -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- Hubble reveals a majestic disk of stars and dust...

LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

[](https://alpha.steepshot.io/post/web-2018-2-1-16-15-23) - -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-l...

Spiral Galaxies Collide

[](https://alpha.steepshot.io/post/web-2018-2-6-4-32-43) - -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- Creating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas, ...

Cartwheel Galaxy

[](https://alpha.steepshot.io/post/web-2018-2-4-22-16-56) - -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- The object was first spotted on wide-field image...

Horsehead Nebula

[](https://alpha.steepshot.io/post/web-2018-2-4-16-54-44) - -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula in the con...

The Twin Jet Nebula

[](https://alpha.steepshot.io/post/web-2018-2-4-9-16-33) - -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- The Twin Jet Nebula, also known as Minkowski 2-9 ...

V838 Monocerotis

[](https://alpha.steepshot.io/post/web-2018-2-3-16-52-18) - -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- Variable star V838 Monocerotis lies near the edg...

Sombrero Galaxy

The Sombrero Galaxy (also known as Messier Object 104, M104 or NGC 4594) is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo located 9.55 Mpc (31,100,000 ly)[2] ...

Supernova

[](https://alpha.steepshot.io/post/web-2018-2-2-22-55-17) - -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- THIS USED TO BE A STAR! It's the remnants of a S...

Earth Core

[](https://alpha.steepshot.io/post/@dspace/20180313t101849691z-post) - -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- The surface of the Sun is 10,000 degr...

We're Made of Star Stuff

[](https://alpha.steepshot.io/post/@dspace/20180313t084810107z-post) - -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- We are all connected to each other bi...

Star Collision

[](https://alpha.steepshot.io/post/@dspace/20180313t082919947z-post) - -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- Astronomers predict that two stars in...

7 Earth - Like Planets

[](https://alpha.steepshot.io/post/@dspace/20180313t080321327z-post) - -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- This is a huge step toward finding bi...

A Leap Second

A leap second have been added to 2017 to compensate for a slowdown in Earths rotation. Even though it's a small difference in time, (taking 1,000 years to cause...