Using the Gemini-South telescope, astronomers have performed high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy of stars in a ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of the first pulsar by the Globular Clusters GMRT Pulsar Search ...

Globular clusters are spherical and extremely compact stellar agglomerates that are usually home to one to two million stars.

Results of the observational campaign, published Jan. 18 on the arXiv pre-print server, provide important insights into the properties of this galaxy and its globular cluster system. Globular ...

M55 is a globular cluster of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. This image was captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 1858 is a bright, large, irregular open cluster and emission nebula.

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But in 2003, Hubble detected a massive planet orbiting an ancient star in the M4 globular cluster, which is about 5,600 light-years distant in the Milky Way. Globular clusters are extremely old ...

Hubble Space Telescope captures the dazzling globular cluster NGC 6569, revealing a glittering hoard of stars in the heart of ...

The heart of a globular cluster, like Terzan 4, is packed with stars so tightly that individual stars are difficult to distinguish from one another, especially with ground-based telescopes.