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

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

Globular clusters are dense, symmetrical regions of stars. They typically reside in the extended stellar halos, or outer regions, of their home galaxies. They can be composed of a few thousand ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out sometime soon and observe the great globular cluster M22 in the constellation Sagittarius the Archer. From a dark site on ...

A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars that orbits a galactic core as a satellite. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shapes and ...

Globular clusters are freakishly old. Of the approximately 150 of them within the Milky Way, the very youngest are no less than 8 billion years old, while the oldest are almost 12 billion years ...

Enigmatic globular clusters. Astronomers know that some of the Milky Way's stars were born in the galaxy itself, whereas others were formed in smaller galaxies that the Milky Way eventually engulfed.

Globular cluster M15 hides within it a planetary nebula, Pease 1. Observers with large scopes and steady skies can find it.

How to see a globular cluster from your home. Some of the Milky Way’s 150 globular clusters are visible at night. NGC 6441 is in the constellation of Scorpius—close to the tip of the Scorpion ...

Globular clusters are an ancient relic of the Early Universe. During this period of time just after the Big Bang, the universe was a “hot soup of particles” or protons, neutrons, and electrons.