The Red Planet will meet a beautiful star cluster called the Beehive on Friday (May 2). Also known as M44, the cluster will ...

For example, the famous Pleiades star cluster (Messier 45), which is a tight ... at 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) per second. In other words, the difference between the fastest and slowest moving ...

Early in the month, it is joined by the moon and on May 4, it will engage in a conjunction with the attractive Beehive Star Cluster; a lovely sight for binocular users. Venus dominates the early ...

May 2025 has a couple of fun astronomical events that may have you looking to the skies. May is when we’ll have opportunities to see a meteor shower, the flower moon, 2 globular star ...

These stars are part of a nuclear star cluster that surrounds a supermassive black hole approximately 4 million times the mass of our Sun. Stars often form in clusters from the same nebula ...

The Spiral Galaxy stamp is issued in a pane of four and costs $10.10, matching the price of the Priority Mail Flat-Rate Envelope. The Star Cluster Priority Mail Express stamp features IC 348 ...

Thousands of stars shine in Liller 1, a 30,000 light-year distant cluster that began forming over 11 billion years ago Some of our galaxy’s most massive, luminous stars burn 8,000 light-years ...