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 The anatomy of stellar outflow
New kind of variable star discovered Discovery of binary brown dwarf at 2 parsec from the Sun
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
Shining a light on cool pools of gas in the galaxy
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
Super-dense star is first ever found suddenly slowing its spin
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 A hidden population of exotic neutron stars
NASA's SWIFT reveals new phenomenon in a neutron star
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
Stars don't obliterate their planets (very often)
Galaxy formation and clusters:
Star factory in the early Universe challengs galaxy evolution theory
Stacking up a clearer picture of the Universe
Fragile mega-galaxy is missing link in history of cosmos
New insights on how spiral galaxies get their arms Galaxies fed by funnels of fuel
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