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For Hubble’s 35th anniversary, ESA has unveiled breathtaking new images of the star cluster Messier 72, a celestial gem located in Aquarius. Once the very first image featured in the Hubble Picture of ...

Living in a globular cluster would mean a sky filled with countless stars; what other unique conditions might exist?

The comet is currently quite small, visually much tinier than the nearby globular cluster M15, and appears through telescopes like a slightly blurred star. However, long-exposure images captured ...

Artist’s illustration of an IMBH ejecting a high-velocity star from a globular cluster. Credit: Jingchuan Yu, Yang Huang and Xiaoling Yu, edited Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet ...

For those with binoculars or a telescope, April is a great time to search for Messier 3 (M3)—a globular cluster often described as a “city of stars.” This ancient spherical swarm of about ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made the first direct observation of star clusters colliding and merging at the hearts of dwarf galaxies. The discovery could help scientists ...

It involves the same elements — chocolate, matzo, coconut, plus dates — combined into delectable, bite-size clusters. To make the dessert, crush a couple of matzo (also known as matzoh ...

Skygazers are still waiting for the celestial event of the year, when a dance between two stars 3,000 light-years away ends in a massive explosion and creates a new dazzling temporary "star" in the ...

Additionally, the researchers noticed odd streams of light coming from these clusters and concluded that globular clusters cannibalize each other at the center of these dwarf galaxies. “We were ...

In dwarf galaxies, they are believed to form from the merger of smaller star clusters, called globular clusters, after they migrate to the galaxy center. However, no such merger of globular ...