Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...
The image shows the Arches star cluster, 25,000 light-years away, captured through infrared observations from Hubble and ground-based telescopes. This Hubble image shows NGC 6397, a star cluster 8,200 ...
The dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 4214 resides about 10 million light-years away. The galaxy’s relative proximity, combined with the wide variety of evolutionary stages among its stars. This image from ...