A stream of stars and gas are being fed to the heart of a stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud, fueling intense star formation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the constellation Virgo. While the galaxy and the star appear to be close to one ...

When you hear the phrase “spiral arms,” you probably think of galaxies. Lots of galaxies have bright arcs of stars that spiral away from their center, including our Milky Way. But not all galaxies ...

The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The tenuous disc of the galaxy is threaded through with ...

Chances are you’ve seen your fair share of interesting looking stars here on io9, but you’ve never seen one quite like this. According to NASA, it’s the first star we’ve ever seen with spiral-arm-like ...

Hubble has captured an image of a beautiful spiral galaxy absolutely ripe with tendrils of star formation, NASA shared earlier this month. The image was of a spiral galaxy known as NGC 5486, which is ...

This week’s small-telescope target is pair of double stars in Cancer the Crab. The first, Tegmeni, otherwise known as Zeta (ζ) Cancri, sits 7° west-southwest of the Beehive Cluster (M44). Tegmeni’s A ...

Astronomers using the ALMA Observatory have discovered an unusual, massive star near the center of our galaxy, a star that has two spiral arms. The arms are part of an accretion disk, a broad disk of ...