By analyzing the data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, Chinese astronomers have investigated a globular cluster known as ...

The study highlights that the kinematic differences between multiple populations are key to understanding the formation and evolution mechanisms of these ancient structures. With ages that can ...

Since astronomers hypothesize that globular clusters are almost as old as the universe itself, they offer a unique opportunity to study some of the oldest stars in the universe, as well. In the end, ...

examining the orbital properties of 154 globular clusters and comparing them with the properties of 41 dwarf galaxies known to orbit the Milky Way, as well as some of the tidally disrupted systems ...

Their size suggests they came from a globular cluster ... If a cluster is going along this path, then it will eject over half its stars over a three billion year period, and this is a sufficient ...

UBC astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to track the orbital motion of 33,000 stars in one of the Galaxy's oldest globular clusters, offering new insights into the formation of the ...

Small changes in the positions of nearly 130,000 stars tracked over a 7-year period reveal that globular clusters do, in fact, take part in mass segregation. Mass segregation is the process of ...

“Star cluster” is a generic way ... are gravitationally bound for at least some period of time. There are two major types of star clusters — globular clusters and open clusters — and ...

Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, an international team of astronomers has observed a Galactic globular cluster known as NGC ... with a spin period of approximately 17.9 milliseconds, found ...

On the other hand, flattened disk-like bulges, may have evolved due to instabilities in their structure over a longer period of time, allowing them to be stretched out. Globular clusters are one ...

Globular clusters are an ancient relic of the Early Universe. During this period of time just after the Big Bang, the universe was a “hot soup of particles” or protons, neutrons, and electrons.

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a stunning field of stars called a globular cluster. Taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys instruments ...