Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are massive, dense and compact stellar systems found in all types of galaxies, from dwarfs to massive ...

Star clusters are among the most beautiful objects in the heavens, and the late summer sky features one of the finest of them all. Just to the south of the tail of Aquila, the Eagle, and in the tiny ...

See it with your eyes alone in a dark place. In binoculars, it will appear as a faint, fuzzy patch. In a telescope, you will see the individual stars. Like many star clusters of this type, M5 is about ...

Based on observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of Italian astronomers reports [1] that the stellar cluster Messier 12 must have lost to our Milky Way galaxy close to one million ...

The Collinder 135 star cluster: An optical image of the Collinder 135 star cluster from the second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS-II). This cluster is one of the earliest formed in the Collinder 135 family ...

This Hubble Picture of the Week shows the spiral galaxy Messier 98, which is located about 45 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair). It was discovered in ...

A newly released image by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Messier 55 globular cluster sparkling with stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

In 1781, French astronomer Charles Messier published a catalog of 103 objects in the heavens. He was primarily interested in comets, but kept finding fuzzy smudges that did not move against the ...

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are massive, dense and compact stellar systems found in all types of galaxies, from dwarfs to massive galaxies. With masses between 10,000 and 100 million solar masses and ...