More space news and info at: http://www.coconutsciencelab.com - the small smattering of bright blue stars in this vast new 615 megapixel ESO image is the perfect cosmic laboratory in which to study the life and death of stars. Known as Messier 18, this star cluster contains stars that formed together from the same massive cloud of gas and dust. There are over 1,000 known open star clusters within the Milky Way, with a wide range of properties, such as size and age, that provide astronomers with clues to how stars form, evolve and die. The main appeal of these clusters is that all of their stars are born together out of the same material. In Messier 18 the blue and white colors of the stellar population indicate that the cluster’s stars are very young, probably only around 30 million years old. Being siblings means that any differences between the stars will only be due to their masses, and not their distance from Earth or the composition of the material they formed from. This makes clusters very useful in refining theories of star formation and evolution. This image, which also features red clouds of glowing hydrogen and dark filaments of dust, was captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Please rate and comment, thanks! Credits: ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUbQ1g7UgMM

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More space news and info at: http://www.coconutsciencelab.com - for hundreds of thousands of years after the Big Bang, light was scattered and trapped in a dense fog. Eventually this light made its “great escape” and the universe was plunged into total darkness. These cosmic “Dark Ages” lasted for millions of years until the first stars and galaxies burst to life and began to illuminate the universe. However, no one knows just when this happened or what the earliest stars and galaxies were really like, because we’ve never seen them. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, due to launch in 2018, will use its powerful infrared vision to spy the very first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe, and will help us understand how today’s universe came to be. Please rate and comment, thanks! Credit: STScI ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS_vEfX8Iko

More space news and info at: http://www.coconutsciencelab.com - footage from the U.S. Army’s “The Big Picture” television series recounts the tense days leading up to the successful launch of America’s first satellite in 1958. Please rate and comment, thanks! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taasS6HQxo4