Stars, Galaxies, Clusters and their formation

Star formation and types:

When the first stars blinked on    Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth

Hunting high-mass stars with Herschel  Hubble finds dead stars 'polluted' with planet debris

VLA gives deep, detailed image of distant Universe 

Discovery of binary brown dwarf at 2 parsec from the Sun

The anatomy of stellar outflow    X-raying the beating heart of a newborn star

Sweet building blocks of life found around young star   

Astronomers get rare peek at early stage of star formation

Herschel reveals the hidden side of star birth    Herschel reveals how most stars formed in the Universe

ALMA shows how young star and planets grow simultaneously

The first stars, as seen by supercomputers   New Study Shows Very First Stars Not Monstrous

Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region  

'Cosmic GDP' crashes 97% as star formation slumps

Close-Up Movie Shows Hidden Details in the Birth of Super-Suns  

Turbulence May Promote the Birth of Massive Stars

Magnetic Fields Play Larger Role in Star Formation than Previously Thought

Astronomers Get Sharpest View Ever of Star Factories in Distant Universe

Study shows how stars look young when they're not     How to Learn a Star's True Age

Herschel and Keck take census of the invisible universe    Surprising spiral structure spotted by ALMA

Wide binary stars: long distance stellar relationships

Red explosions reveal secret life of binary stars 

Sweeping X-ray imaging survey of dying stars is 'uncharted territory' 

Halo of neutrinos alters physics of exploding stars     The Helix Nebula: bigger in death than in life 

The brightest stars don't live alone   Turbulent relationship amongst massive stars

NASA releases new WISE mission catalog of entire infrared sky

Astronomers Release Unprecedented Data Set on Celestial Objects that Brighten and Dim

Overview from NASA      The enigma of the missing stars in space may be solved

Hubble movies provide unprecedented view of supersonic jets from young stars

Herschel probes the dusty history of a giant star

A cool discoveryabout the Sun's next-door twin

How to Weigh a Star Using a Moon   New Candidate For Coldest ‘Star’    A Star with Spiral Arms

"Vampire" Stars Found in Heart of Our Galaxy—A First

Astronomers measure largest-ever magnetic field around massive star

The Universe Does Think Small     Herschel finds a hole in space

Close-up Photos of Dying Star Show Our Sun's Fate

Record-breaking stellar explosion helps understand far-off galaxy

Two Dying Stars Reborn as One    Evolved Stars Locked in Fatalistic Dance

Betelgeuse braces for collision

Did the ancient Egyptians record the period of the eclipsing binary Algol The Raging One?

Astronomers Discover Merging Star Systems that Might Explode

Chandrasekhar’s role in 20th-century science   

Galaxy formation and clusters:

Star factory in the early Universe challengs galaxy evolution theory

New insights on how spiral galaxies get their arms

Distance to nearest galaxy measured    Ancient, highly active galaxies discovered

Astronomers creates computer models to explain how galaxies formed and evolved

Structures in the Universe     The awsome power of galaxy cluster mergers

Dynamical age differences among coeval star clusters as revealed by blue stragglers

Discovery of the most distant galaxy in the cosmic dawn   When galaxies eat galaxies

Astronomers find massive supply of fresh gas around modern galaxies

Hubble farthest ever view of the Universe   Astronomers uncover a surprising trend in galaxy evolution

Hubble helps find candidate for most distant object in the Universe    Hubble sees galaxy in a spin

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope report the earliest spiral galaxy ever seen    

Overview from NASA   NASA's Hubble Confirms that Galaxies Are the Ultimate Recyclers

Astronomers Discover New Clues to Galaxy Evolution   Explosion of galaxy formation lit up early universe

Astronomers discover invisible, starless galaxies predicted by theory

ALMA Early Science Result Reveals Starving Galaxies  

Hubble Astronomers Uncover an Overheated Early Universe

An improved map of the Galactic Faraday sky

The AAVSO photometric All-Sky Survey

CLUSTERING OF SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY III PHOTOMETRIC LUMINOUS GALAXIES: THE MEASUREMENT, SYSTEMATICS AND COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

How the Milky Way got its Spiral     List of Milky Way's satellite galaxies      A beast with 4 tails

FORMING REALISTIC LATE-TYPE SPIRALS IN A ACDM UNIVERSE: THE ERIS SIMULATION

How Typical is the Milky Way?   A Map of the Milky Way   Night Sky Atlas of the Milky Way

Ghostly gamm-ray beams blast from Milky Way's center
  

Tracing the Milky Way's hidden reservoirs of gas      Around the Milky Way galaxy in 11.5 years

Scientists Chart High-Precision Map of Milky Way's Magnetic Fields         SDSS-III 
 
 
 

Planck steps closer to the cosmic blueprint 

The Milky Way Atlas (Hayden Planetarium)    An Atlas of the Milky Way (Max Planck)

Milky Way a Swifter Spinner, More Massive, New Measurements Show

Detecting dusty clouds and stars in our galaxy

Milky Way Sidelined in Galactic Tug of War     Color of the Milky Way Determined

A cold Milky Way stellar stream in the direction of Triangulum 

Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky Way   Rogue star ejected from the galaxy found in intergalactic space

Milky Way struck 100  million years ago, still rings like a bell

Surprise pancake stucture in Andromeda Galaxy upends galactic understanding

Stars Forming Just Beyond Black Hole’s Grasp at Galactic Center

Ghosts of the Future: First Giant Structures of the Universe

Hearts of Galaxies Close in for Cosmic Train Wreck

The Spitzer Photo Atlas of Galactic "Train Wrecks"

A Galactic Crash Investigation    Astronomers Pin Down Galaxy Collision Rate

Cosmic Gravity Dance

Weight-Watchers Guide to the Universe: Obese Galaxies Aren’t Dieting

Cosmic Dance Helps Galaxies Lose Weight

Nature’s Best Magnifying Glass Views Eary Spiral Galaxy

Keck & NASA Telescopes Reveal Surprisingly Young Galaxy

The Pale Red Dot: Most Distant Galaxy Ever Discovered

A Star as Old as the Universe Found in Milky Way

Astronomers Find Giant, Previously Unseen Structure in our Galaxy

The VPOS: a vast polar structure of satellite galaxies, globular clusters and streams around the Milky Way

NASA Study Distinguishes Most Distant Galaxy Cluster   

Astronomers Unveil Most Complete 3-D Map of Local Universe   The Universe in 3D

Astrobiologists discover 'sweet spots' for the formation of complex organic molecules in the galaxy

Astronomers simulate real-time telescope as big as the world to study peculiar active galaxy

South Pole Telescope (SPT) finishes 5-year survey of galaxy clusters

WiggleZ confirms the Big picture of the Universe    Monster galaxy may have been stirred-up by black-hole mischief

New Australian telescope set to find 700,000 galaxies

A hidden treasure in the Large Magelllanic Cloud

Cool, new views of Andromeda galaxy

Planck discovers filament of hot gas connecting linking two galaxy clusters

Massive outburst in neighboring galaxy surprises astronomers

VLT observations identify very rare new kind of galaxy 

Magnetism combines with gravity to shape black hole's environment

World's first glimpse at Black Hole launchpad      Peering to the edge of a black hole

Revealing a mini super-massive black hole   Biggest black hole blast discovered

'Cry' of a shredded star heralds a new era for testing relativity