Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

A globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way is gradually dissolving, according to a new study published on arXiv, ...

Astronomers discovered an extremely hot galaxy cluster in the region that was far hotter and older than current theories ...

Almost like snowflakes, the stars of the globular cluster NGC 6441 sparkle peacefully in the night sky, about 13,000 light-years from the Milky Way’s galactic center. Like snowflakes, the exact number ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 light-years from Earth and straight into a cosmic time machine. Packed ...

A study published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics marks a significant milestone in our understanding of the formation and dynamical evolution of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters ...

A small, bizarre cluster of a million young stars, enshrouded in thick gas and dust in a nearby dwarf galaxy, has been confirmed by Jean Turner, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy, and her ...

Spring means it’s time to look up into our night sky and find one of the oldest objects in our galaxy: the M3 Cluster. NASA and other sky experts call this group of ancient stars “a truly distant ...

NGC 6355 has been imaged using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The globular cluster of stars lies 50,000 light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen Music: Stellardrone - Billions ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) utilized its infrared imaging capabilities to present a novel perspective of the Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104), significantly altering its visible-light ...