The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing new photo of the 8-billion-year-old globular cluster Messier 3.
This Hubble image shows the...
NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope of the globular cluster Messier 2.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of an open star cluster called Messier 11 (also known as M11 or NGC 6705).
This image of...
A team of astronomers using the Gemini-South telescope has discovered one of the oldest stellar clusters in the Milky Way. The team’s results date the...
Hypervelocity stars are solitary stars moving fast enough to escape the gravitational grasp of the Milky Way Galaxy. Discovered in 2014, LAMOST-HVS1 is...
Globular clusters are densely packed, spherical collections of hundreds of thousands or even millions of stars. They are among the oldest known objects...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed the massive, luminous globular cluster NGC 2419, also known as the ‘Intergalactic...
A duo of astronomers has spotted three new globular clusters in the Milky Way’s bulge, a 10,000-light-year-wide central structure made primarily of old...
NASA has released a beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of an ancient star cluster called NGC 1466.
This Hubble image shows the...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted comet-like stars in a young star cluster called Westerlund 1.
This...
Globular clusters are densely packed, spherical collections of several hundred thousand stars. They are among the oldest known objects in the Universe...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has delivered an unrivalled snapshot of NGC 1898, a globular cluster in the constellation Dorado.
This Hubble image...
Astronomers using data from the Kepler spacecraft’s K2 mission have discovered two mini-Neptune exoplanets orbiting a star in an open star cluster called...
Close encounters between stars in Omega Centauri, the only star cluster visible to the naked eye, leave little room for habitable planets, according to...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking photo of the colorful globular cluster NGC 2108.
This Hubble/ACS image shows NGC 2108, a globular...
The High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager (HAWK-I) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has taken the most detailed infrared image so far of a...
University of Surrey’s Professor Mark Gieles and colleagues may have found a solution to a problem that has perplexed astronomers for several decades:...
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows off the massive globular cluster NGC 6139.
The globular cluster NGC 6139 as seen by the NASA/ESA...
Once thought to be formed soon after the Universe itself, new research from the Universities of Warwick and Auckland finds globular clusters may be only...
