Using the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, astronomers have performed a chemical study of a globular ...

NGC 6355 has been imaged using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The globular cluster of stars lies 50,000 light-years away.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out sometime soon and observe the great globular cluster M22 in the constellation Sagittarius the Archer. From a dark site on ...

M22 is one of the brightest and nearest globular clusters to Earth, located near the top of the Sagittarius Teapot.

By analyzing the data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, Chinese astronomers have investigated a globular cluster known as ...

Another “well-placed” globular cluster—May 28. Don’t worry if you missed M5 on May 11—you have another chance to see a “well-placed” globular cluster on May 28.

Globular clusters, among the oldest bound stellar systems in the Universe, offer a unique laboratory for understanding stellar evolution and dynamics. Traditionally considered simple stellar ...

Missed seeing the "well-placed" globular clusters in May? The Great Hercules Cluster, or Messier 13, reaches its highest point in the night sky on June 2, putting it in a prime viewing position.

But the SiPeed NanoCluster is one of the most compact cluster boards I’ve ever seen. When fully populated, it’s a 100 x 60 x 60mm (3.94″ x 2.36″ x 2.36″) device that supports up to 7 ...

At its distance of 34,000 light-years, the cluster was incredibly bright in such a large telescope. Next, we turned to a guessing game. Stephen asked me, as a deep-sky nut, to guess what galaxy we ...

Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999, covering everything from architecture and transport design to books, tech and graphic design. He is now the magazine’s Transport and ...