A globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way is gradually dissolving, according to a new study published on arXiv, ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), astronomers have observed a nearby galactic globular cluster known as NGC 6569.

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 ...

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 ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made the first direct observation of star clusters colliding and merging at the hearts of dwarf galaxies. The discovery could help scientists settle ...

Spring means it’s time to look up into our night sky and find one of the oldest objects in our galaxy: the M3 Cluster. NASA and other sky experts call this group of ancient stars “a truly distant ...

A study published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics marks a significant milestone in our understanding of the formation and dynamical evolution of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters ...

Comparison of traditional velocity dispersion and pulsar timing methods (left) versus the HiVel ejection from globular clusters method (right) in the search for IMBHs. Recently, Associate Professor ...

A small, bizarre cluster of a million young stars, enshrouded in thick gas and dust in a nearby dwarf galaxy, has been confirmed by Jean Turner, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy, and her ...

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