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

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 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 ...

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.

The blurring caused by Earth’s atmosphere makes it impossible to tell one star from another, but from Hubble’s location in low-Earth orbit the atmosphere no longer poses a problem. This star-studded ...

Globular clusters are typically seen in the galactic suburbs, large bright balls of stars found above and below the main body ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Hubble observations of NGC 1754 confirm it as a compact, old globular cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, with a core radius of 2.74 light years, half-mass ...

Globular clusters are of particular interest to astrophysicists, as they can be 12 to 13 billion years old, which means they were some of the first structures that formed in the early universe.

Globular clusters are thought to be billions of years old. About 150 are known to exist in the halo of the Milky Way.They orbit its center in the opposite direction as most other objects in our ...

New research demonstrated a possible formation mechanism of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters, star clusters that could contain tens of thousands or even millions of tightly ...