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 ...

The core of the cluster is suffused with the pale blue light of countless stars, and a handful of particularly bright ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Hubble observations of NGC 1754 confirm it as a compact, old globular cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, with a core radius of 2.74 light years, half-mass ...

Globular clusters are of particular interest to astrophysicists, as they can be 12 to 13 billion years old, which means they were some of the first structures that formed in the early universe.

Composite of the 16 globular clusters examined for the study. (Credit: ESA/Hubble - ESO – SDSS) "In this work, we analyzed in detail the motion of thousands of stars within each cluster," said ...

New research demonstrated a possible formation mechanism of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters, star clusters that could contain tens of thousands or even millions of tightly ...

The image at left shows the very center of globular cluster NGC 6397 (right), which contains several stars known as blue stragglers — stars thought to be created through collisions.

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: ...

Modern astronomy holds that all major galaxies (with the Milky Way as no exception) are the accumulation of numerous small mergers. Thus, it should be expected that some of the globular clusters ...

Greetings, stargazers. It seems like the only things I have seen in the evening sky recently have been clouds. Although the garden plants are happy with the rain, my dogs are unhappy about the ...

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