Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) and by analyzing archival Arecibo Observatory data, ...
A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.
Astronomers studying FCC 224, an ultra-diffuse galaxy, have discovered luminous, overmassive globular clusters, providing key ...
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.
NASA has captured some of the most breathtaking star clusters in the universe, where countless stars shimmer like cosmic ...
Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.
Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...
Caldwell 71, or NGC 2477, is an open star cluster. Open clusters are loosely bound collections of stars. It is located roughly 4,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.
New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...
What would life be like in such a dense clump of stars?