Some stars appear to defy time itself. Nestled within ancient star clusters, they shine bluer and brighter than their ...

There is little I love more than gazing at a glittering globular cluster through a big, juicy Dob. The larger the mirror, the better! Each cluster looks a little different, and resolving individual ...

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant progress in understanding how three-dimensional (3D) layered structures form ...

New model shows extremely massive stars, over 1,000 solar masses, shaped the birth and early evolution of the universe's oldest star clusters. (Nanowerk News) An international team led by ICREA ...

The study of gamma-ray emission from globular clusters (GCs) and their resident millisecond pulsars (MSPs) presents a compelling window into high-energy astrophysics. GCs are densely populated, ...

Astronomy magazine's Dave Eicher encourages viewers to observe Messier object 4 (M4), a globular cluster. M4 is located in the constellation Scorpius. Antares, the brightest star in Scorpius, serves ...

the constellation Orion with the Orion Nebula Cluster as the central “star” in the sword of Orion, the Pleiades and the Hyades. All three open clusters are highlighted by large yellow circles. Orion ...

(Nanowerk News) PGC 6240 is an elliptical galaxy that resembles a pale rose in the sky, with hazy shells of stars encircling a very bright centre. Some of these shells are packed close to the centre ...

A globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way is gradually dissolving, according to a new study published on arXiv, revealing rare insights into how the Galactic bulge was built from ancient star ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Canada and Switzerland have discovered a new galaxy, which received designation COSMOS2020-635829. The newfound object appears to undergo ...

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