Like a July 4 fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust — the raw material for new star ...

Astronomers created a stunning new image showing celestial fireworks in star cluster G286.21+0.17. Most stars in the universe, including our Sun, were born in massive star clusters. These clusters are ...

Well, it's the Fourth of July, which means sunburns, cookouts, and lots of questionable fuses being lit from coast to coast. But whether you'll be waving some sparklers or going to a full-on ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Star ...

A high-powered telescope array has caught the brilliant fireworks-like "streamers" of gas formed during an early stage of star development in a giant cluster. That process may take a million years to ...

At the high-end of the energy spectrum, X-rays, as imaged by NASA's Chandra observatory, reveal superheated gas and plasma. At the other end of the spectrum, low-energy emissions appear in the ...

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 blasts of X-rays and gamma rays. Now, a team of astronomers, ...

Astronomers created a stunning new image showing celestial fireworks in star cluster G286.21+0.17. Astronomers created a stunning new image showing celestial fireworks in star cluster G286.21+0.17.