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 ...

The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to ...

M15, a magnitude 6.2 globular cluster within the constellation Pegasus, possesses a diameter of 12.3' and is discernible to the naked eye from dark observing sites. Located by extending a line 4° from ...

The constellation Hercules is high in the east after dark this evening. Rich with deep-sky objects, we're passing by the Strongman's most famous (M13) for its second-brightest globular cluster: M92.

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 ...

Using the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, astronomers have performed a chemical study of a globular cluster known as ESO 280-SC06. As a result, they found that ESO 280-SC06 ...

The most sensitive image of a globular cluster, a tightly packed ball of ancient stars, has revealed a strange radio signal that could be a black hole. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been observed in the past." Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made ...

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Based on observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of Italian astronomers reports [1] that the stellar cluster Messier 12 must have lost to our Milky Way galaxy close to one million ...