This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 1854, a globular star cluster in the southern constellation of Dorado.
This image shows NGC 1854,...
A multinational team of astrophysicists has recorded the ‘sounds’ from some of the oldest stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.
This wide-field view is centered...
What is the total mass of our Milky Way Galaxy? The short answer, so far, is 7 x 1011 solar masses, says a team of astronomers at McMaster University,...
NASA has released an absolutely outstanding photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of a colorful collection of stars in the constellation of Scorpius.
This...
According to a new study published this week in the journal Nature, globular clusters make new stars by adopting stray cosmic gas and dust.
This Hubble...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the globular cluster Terzan 1.
This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a beautiful image of a globular cluster known as NGC 1783.
This Hubble image shows the intermediate-age...
An international team of astronomers, led by Dr Francesca D’Antona from the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy, has found that the so-called...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured snapshots of fledging white dwarfs beginning their slow-paced, 40-million-year migration...
An international group of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile has discovered a never-seen-before...
This newly released Hubble image shows Messier 22, the brightest globular cluster visible from the northern hemisphere.
This is a close-up of the central...
Using the data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), astronomers have found nine new ultra-faint Milky Way satellites. Based on the morphological properties,...
The Advanced Camera for Surveys on board NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful image of a globular star cluster called Palomar 12.
This...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a globular cluster called NGC 6535.
NGC 6535. Image credit: ESA...
New Hubble Space Telescope observations of globular star clusters in a tiny galaxy called the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Fornax dSph) show these objects...
A team of astronomers led by Dr Nelson Caldwell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered a globular star cluster thrown out...
A team of researchers reported the first-ever discovery of a black hole in a globular star cluster in our Milky Way Galaxy.
This Chandra X-ray image of...
New, deep observations of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1689 have revealed that it hosts the largest population of globular clusters ever found.
This...
A colorful, close-up view of the globular star cluster NGC 6362 has been taken by astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory...
