This week’s small-telescope target is globular cluster NGC 2808 in the southern constellation Carina the Keel. It shines at magnitude 6.2 and has a diameter of 13.8′. That means it covers 20 ...

How do globular clusters remain intact for so long? As stars orbit the common center of mass, shouldn't they cross orbits and ...

Located some 300,000 light years away from Earth, NGC 2419 is one of the most distant globular clusters in the outer halo of our galaxy. With a radius of 260 light years, mass of about 900,000 ...

This latest Hubble image share highlights the globular cluster that's gone by many (and, as NASA notes, fairly boring) names since its existence was first recorded in 1826. The actual sight of NGC ...

These stunning celestial formations, captured using advanced space telescopes, reveal intricate details of stars at various ...

112, No. 776, October 2000 Spectroscopy of Giant Stars in the Pyxis... Spectroscopy of Giant Stars in the Pyxis Globular Cluster This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. ABSTRACT ...

Additionally, LEWIS has provided the first "global" view of these faint galaxies within a galaxy cluster that is still ... age and the properties of globular clusters, fundamental tracers also ...

The transmission consisted of a simple, pictorial message, aimed at our putative cosmic companions in the globular star cluster M13. This cluster is roughly 21,000 light-years from us, near the edge ...

The constellation Hercules contains two of the finest globular star clusters visible in the Northern Hemisphere: M13 (below) and M92 (not shown -- yet!). Each contains several hundred thousand stars, ...

Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976) ...

128, No. 970, 2016 December The Abundance of Lithium in an ABG Star ... The Abundance of Lithium in an ABG Star in the Globular Cluster M3 (NGC 5272) This is the metadata section. Skip to content ...

[Photo/NAOC/Handout via Xinhua] BEIJING -- Chinese astronomers have identified a runaway star that was ejected from the M15 globular cluster, providing strong evidence for the existence of ...