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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 ...
Thursday, May 22 The Moon hangs near Saturn and Neptune in the early-morning sky, and it’s best to catch them earlier rather ...
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 ...
Spring means it’s time to look up into our night sky and find one of the oldest objects in our galaxy: the M3 Cluster. NASA and other sky experts call this group of ancient stars “a truly ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Young stars 'feed' on magnetic 'rivers': This image shows narrow, spindle-like structures, called filaments, that act like rivers channeling material into the Serpens South star cluster ...