How do globular clusters remain intact for so long? As stars orbit the common center of mass, shouldn't they cross orbits and ...
Globular clusters are spherical and extremely compact stellar agglomerates that are usually home to one to two million stars.
A stunning Blood Moon March 13/14 caps off plenty of planetary action and sparkling stars in the sky this week.
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, ...
Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...
A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.
Young stars coming to life out of the proverbial celestial dust is perhaps the most captivating sight in the cosmos. Check ...
ABSTRACT Globular clusters are ideal laboratories to study the evolution of low‐mass stars. In this work we concentrate on three types of hot stars observed in globular clusters: horizontal branch ...
Discovered in 1989 by the Arecibo Observatory, PSR B1310+18A, (M53A for short) is a pulsar in an old globular cluster (GC) NGC 5024 (also known as M53) located some 60,000 light years away.