European astronomers, including a scientist from Cardiff University, have discovered the largest known star cluster in the Milky Way. The super star cluster known as ‘Westerlund 1’ is made up of ...

In the past, map makers often placed monsters on their maps to mark unexplored regions and potentially dangerous regions. A famous example is the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' map, created in 1570, which ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. The star cluster in question is called Palomar 5. It's a stellar ...

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be resolved? Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth.

Just when astronomers thought they might have dug up the last of our galaxy’s “fossils,” they’ve discovered a new one in the galactic equivalent of our own backyard. Called globular clusters, these ...

Looking out into the Milky Way, it's possible to see all sorts of strange cosmic structures — tentacle-like spiraling arms of stars in the outer regions of the galaxy, dark clouds of gas and dust that ...

Astronomers are watching a cluster of stars called a globular cluster fall to its doom. The cluster, called VVV CL002, is speeding towards the centre of the Milky Way, where it is certain to be ...

The space telescope imaged a globular cluster located in the Milky Way satellite galaxy named the Large Magellanic Cloud, ensuring a starry white Christmas for space fans. When you purchase through ...

What can merging star clusters teach scientists about the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies, which are smaller galaxies than our Milky Way and orbit larger galaxies? This is what a recent ...