Using data from the Magellan Clay telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), astronomers have investigated a ...

How do stars form and evolve inside globular clusters? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers conducted a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope finessed the light beaming in from outside our galaxy, and the result is a fabulous image where individual stars are seen in a big embrace. When thousands or even millions ...

A spherical shape made from the pinpricks of light from closely packed stars revealed itself to the Hubble Space Telescope when the observatory recently peered into the constellation Mensa. Hubble ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. An international team of astronomers have created the most ...

Here about what astronomers discovered inside 47 Tucanae - the second brightest globular cluster in the night sky Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, giving them their spherical shapes and high concentrations of stars toward their centers.

A study shows that the most massive stars in the last stages of their lives are those which contaminate the interstellar medium with new chemical elements, giving rise to successive generations of ...

The globular cluster NGC 6441 orbits the Milky Way Galaxy 13,000 light-years from its core. Tens of thousands of stars are held together through their mutual gravities in an enormous sphere or ...

The glittering globular cluster Terzan 12 — a vast, tightly bound collection of stars — fills the frame of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The location of this globular cluster, ...