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

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 ...

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

A globular cluster is a densely packed collection of ancient stars that typically appear spherical in shape. Most of them are estimated to be about 10 billion years old and are home to some of the ...

This week’s image from Hubble shows an enormous structure of stars called a globular cluster, located 23,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a stunning field of stars called a globular cluster.Taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys instruments ...

An international team of astronomers have created the most sensitive radio image ever of a globular cluster. The team imaged 47 Tucanae, an ancient ball of tightly-packed stars and […] Search for: ...

However, unlike most globular clusters, its stars are relatively young. This Hubble image shows the star cluster NGC 1850, located about 160,000 light-years away.

“Hubble revolutionized the study of globular clusters,” ESA officials have previously written. The space telescope’s orbital altitude of about 326 miles above Earth’s surface gives it an ...

But it’s not. M3 is what’s called a globular cluster. Scientists believe it’s 11 to 13 billion years old, and it is home to half a million stars.

More information: Dongwook Lim et al, Two stellar populations with different metallicities in the low-mass globular cluster Gran 5, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.21578 ...

The globular star cluster M92, shown here in an image from the Hubble Space Telescope, appears to be about 13.8 billion years old — the same age as the universe. ESA/Hubble, NASA, Gilles Chapdelaine ...