Using the Gemini-South telescope, astronomers have performed high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy of stars in a ...

Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302): Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across ...

Thanks to the Gemini South telescope, a team of astronomers has explored the heart of Gran 5, a globular cluster near the galactic center. And what they discovered changes our understanding of these ...

2 to the preprint server arXiv, yield important insights into the globular cluster system of this galaxy. Globular clusters (GCs) are collections of tightly bound stars orbiting galaxies.

This image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows the globular star cluster Omega Centauri which is located about 15,790 light-years from Earth ...

Hubble's image of NGC 3603 reveals a young star cluster and a cavity formed by hot blue stars in surrounding gas and dust. The image shows WR 25 and Tr16-244, massive stars in the Trumpler 16 cluster ...

Why are open star clusters in the disk of a spiral galaxy, while globulars are in the halo? Is the same true for irregular ...

Globular Cluster NGC 1466: This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ancient, glimmering ball of stars called NGC 1466. Twinkling Open Cluster NGC 2002: A twinkling group of stars ...

The orange and red in this image indicates visible and near-infrared light, respectively. White dwarf stars are present in the globular cluster NGC 6397, which is located in the constellation Ara ...