To mark its 25th year in orbit, NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope released an image of the star cluster Westerlund 2. They contain fibre and natural antibacterial properties that aid digestion, ...

Globular clusters are spherical and extremely compact stellar agglomerates that are usually home to one to two million stars. This groundbreaking study is the first to conduct a 3D kinematic ...

How do globular clusters remain intact for so long? As stars orbit the common center of mass, shouldn't they cross orbits and ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky ...

(1) THE determination of the past duration of solar radiation, and, consequently, the problem of the age of the inhabitable earth, imposes upon theories of radiation a difficulty the magnitude and ...

The constellation Hercules contains two of the finest globular star clusters visible in the Northern Hemisphere: M13 (below) and M92 (not shown -- yet!). Each contains several hundred thousand stars, ...

Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976) ...