Sep 18, 2018 · The small bright dot above the Small Magellanic Cloud is a globular cluster – a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars – called NGC 104, also known as 47 …

Feb 2, 2017 · Combined with its fully-coated optics and innovative WiFi technology, the Celestron Astro Fi offers dazzling views of a wide variety of celestial objects – from the rugged, cratered …

Sep 8, 2016 · Holes punched in a stream of stars could help us to better understand dark matter. Image Credit: V. Belokurov, D. Erkal, S.E. Koposov (IoA, Cambridge).

Mar 6, 2016 · At the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, astronomers are busy tinkering with a high-tech instrument that could discover a variety of objects both far from Earth and closer to …

What is the difference between a globular cluster and an open cluster? They both contain stars but what ...

Hemisphere: Northern Right Ascension: 00h 42m 44s Declination: +41° 16′ 9″ M31 or the Andromeda Galaxy is the brightest galaxy in the northern hemisphere and can be seen with …

The international University of California, Riverside-led SpARCS collaboration has discovered four of the most distant clusters of galaxies ever found, as they appeared when the universe was …

It seems appropriate that one of the most massive known objects in the universe, the Perseus galactic cluster, should also be home to a particularly huge galaxy at its centre. The giant …

May 17, 2018 · Hidden among the huge galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+223 is MACS1149-JD1, where the most distant oxygen detection originates. Image credit: NASA/ESA/S. …

The young cluster hosts many extremely massive, hot and luminous stars whose energy is mostly radiated in the ultraviolet. This is why the scientists probed the ultraviolet emission of the …