The Girl Scout “Westies” Service Unit, which consists of eight troops from West Springfield and Westfield, attended an ...

WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by ...

Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new insights on an extreme ...

The Epoch of Reionization — the universe’s last major transition — may have happened earlier than previously thought.

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

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The first-ever close-up of an extragalactic star looks different than expected and might give a view of what stars look like at the end of their lives.

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is ...

The star — known as WOH G64 — is located 160,000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

The copy of "Harmonia Macrocosmica" dates back to the 17th century and includes ancient theories of the universe ...