South telescope, astronomers have performed high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy of stars in a Galactic globular ...

How do stars form and evolve inside globular clusters? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics ...

A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics marks a significant milestone in our understanding of the formation and ...

This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a birthplace for billions of stars. This Hubble image shows bright ...

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to ...

Imaged by the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the giant elliptical galaxy at the center of the image is NGC ...

New research offers groundbreaking insights into the formation and dynamical evolution of globular clusters, showing multiple formation events and distinct motions within these ancient star ...

Take some cosmic dust and gas, then add billions and billions of planets and a whole lot of stars to the mix. Spice it all up with a handful of gravity to hold things together, and you get a galaxy.

Figuera Jaimes, R. Bramich, D. M. Skottfelt, J. Kains, N. Jørgensen, U. G. Horne, K. Dominik, M. Alsubai, K. A. Bozza, V. Calchi Novati, S. Ciceri, S. D’Ago, G ...

Third place went to Chris Romaine for an up-close shot of a cannabis leaf. Other neat images (which again, you can see in the selection above) included a shot of a cluster of octopus eggs ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace ... ABSTRACT We report radial velocities for 303 giant stars in the globular clusters M3, M13, M15, and M92. Spectra were obtained using the 4 m ...

Binoculars will be handy for glimpsing it (though a telescope is required to see its rings) and also for getting a nice close-up of the Moon ... home to the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules ...