A thin trail of stars has been spotted in a galaxy beyond the Milky Way. It appears to have originated from a globular ...
On a morning train commute, this former scientist found a stellar surprise in an old Hubble image.
Astronomers have pushed the recorded history of the Milky Way roughly 1.8 billion years farther into the past, uncovering ...
A faint ribbon of stars around a distant galaxy has become the first globular cluster stellar stream ever identified beyond ...
The earliest example of the Milky Way cannibalising a smaller galaxy for its growth involved a cosmic meal that left a scar ...
Another week, another beautiful image of space captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. This week’s image shows the globular cluster NGC 6717, located over 20,000 light-years away in the constellation ...
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This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a sparkling collection of thousands of stars. One formation commonly seen within galaxies is called a globular cluster, in which thousands of ...
A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars that orbits a galactic core as a satellite. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shapes and ...