Stars

Intergalactic stargazing with NASA: Netizens agog; watch the viral video here

The video shows a massive star cluster called Westerlund 2. Located 20,000 light-years from Earth, it houses nearly 3,000 stars and resides in a stellar nursery known as Gum 29

Astronomers found 1,715 stars with an unobstructed view of Earth in the last 5,000 years

Experts like late Stephen Hawking have warned against reaching out to aliens because they could harm us.

Sherni movie review: Vidya Balan buries her star persona in the lap of nature and gripping forest politics

Sherni delivers unrelenting yet noiseless excitement in addition to food for thought all the way up to its concluding minutes.

Sushant Singh Rajput, a hardworking actor unfazed by stardom, made all the right noises with his silences

Notwithstanding his boundless talent, Sushant Singh Rajput was one of the most hardworking actors of his generation. And that shows in the silences of his performances.

ESO's telescope captures images of never-seen-before cosmic web with a surprise inside

Simulations showed that the light came from billions of previously invisible dwarf galaxies spawning trillions of stars.

Astrosat satellite spots 'dinosaurs of the universe' globular star cluster: Dept of Sci-tech

The team of scientists found about 34 UV-bright stars were found to be members of the globular cluster.

Scientists use New Horizon to find number of galaxies from glow of the universe

The ‘leftover glow’ is coming from some dwarf galaxies that are present in the nearby universe “just beyond detectability”

Star sisters: Around 500 stars born together in Theia 456 are now moving together

All the stars streams in the Milky Way have been conveniently named Theia for the Greek Titan goddess of sight and heavenly light.

Hubble telescopes finds that Andromeda’s halo is already touching the Milky Way's halo

Scientists have mapped the enormous halo of Andromeda and found that the halo extends 1.3 million light-years from the galaxy.

Scientists pinpoint an icy dome as the best spot on Earth for skygazing, amateur astronomy

Observations from Dome A were two and a half times better than other good observation spots in Chile or Hawaii.