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Astronomers have discovered signs of supermassive stars at the center of globular clusters born not long after the Big Bang. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Scientists will tell you that the romantic idea is factually true: We are made of the same stuff as stars. In fact, all chemical elements heavier than helium are made in the stars, and research into ...

Hubble recently captured a dazzling image of the heart of globular cluster Terzan 9, a bright ball of stars 23,000 light years away. Globular clusters are tightly packed groups of tens of thousands — ...

Globular star clusters are huge balls of thousands of stars that orbit most galaxies. They are among the oldest known stellar systems in the Universe and have survived through almost the entire span ...

One of the hallmarks of the midwinter Colorado sky is the presence of a comparatively large number of stellar groupings, which are called “open” or galactic star clusters. Unlike the globular clusters ...

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Hubble continues to deliver gorgeous images of the universe. One of the latest images the space telescope has captured is that of an open star cluster called NGC 2002. This cluster is located around ...

Warm summer nights in August offer a front-row seat to some of the most mesmerizing star clusters in the sky. According toEarthSky.org, this month brings prime viewing opportunities for three of the ...

Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), astronomers have observed a nearby galactic globular cluster known as NGC 6569. Results of the observational campaign, published December 22 on the arXiv ...

Our Milky Way Galaxy is surrounded by about 200 compact groups of stars, containing up to a million stars each. At 13 billion years of age, these globular clusters are almost as old as the universe ...