Astronomers studying FCC 224, an ultra-diffuse galaxy, have discovered luminous, overmassive globular clusters, providing key ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

It’s almost globular cluster season. One of the mysteries of our galaxy and every other, these dense groupings of up to a million stars—the most massive and oldest star clusters in the ...

Results of the observational campaign, published Jan. 18 on the arXiv pre-print server, provide important insights into the properties of this galaxy and its globular cluster system. Globular ...

Scientists have investigated the properties of globular clusters (GCs) to identify those belonging to the tidal stream of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph), a satellite galaxy to ...

The globular cluster NGC 2005, featured in this Hubble image, is located about 750 light-years from the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxy and ...

Andromeda III is one of at least 13 dwarf satellite galaxies in orbit around ... about 3 billion years younger than the ...

The stunning red image of Tarantula Nebula was captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy. This 100 million-year-old globular cluster ...

The open cluster Trumpler 14 contains some of the most massive and bright stars in our galaxy, and it is located 8,000 light-years away. This entire group is NGC 1858, an open star cluster located in ...

Globular cluster in Dorado: This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a birthplace for billions of stars.