Using the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, astronomers have performed a chemical study of a globular ...

NGC 6355 has been imaged using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The globular cluster of stars lies 50,000 light-years away.

By analyzing the data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, Chinese astronomers have investigated a globular cluster known as ...

Also, this month, the July full moon, or Buck Moon, will grace the sky and reach peak illumination in the zodiac sign of ...

While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area has fended ...

While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area in Texas has ...

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

Another “well-placed” globular cluster—May 28. Don’t worry if you missed M5 on May 11—you have another chance to see a “well-placed” globular cluster on May 28.

Globular Cluster: A densely packed, roughly spherical collection of ancient stars that orbit the galactic core. Blue Stragglers: Stars that appear hotter and more luminous than other stars of ...

If you are using larger binoculars or a telescope, look also for the globular cluster NGC 5634. This small, 5’-diameter faint cluster glows at magnitude 9.6 and tonight lies just under 2° east ...

Antares is a red supergiant star located 400 light-years from Earth. The waxing gibbous moon will shine close to the red star Antares in the constellation Scorpius on the night of June 9.