412 results for "star cluster"

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stunning image of Westerlund 1, the largest remaining super star cluster in the Milky Way, revealing a dense collection of massive…

Astronomers have discovered a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes within the star cluster Palomar 5, located 80,000 light-years from Earth. This unique globular cluster, with its 30,000-light-year-long tidal…

Posted on Jul 3, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Most stars in the universe –including our life-giving Population 1, main-sequence Sun, one of more than 100 billion stars in the Milky...

Globular clusters age has been revised following research into the age of binary star systems within the clusters, with both thought to have been born at the same time. Findings...

Posted on Apr 13, 2015 About 160 globular clusters have been spotted encircling our galaxy, the Milky Way, mostly toward its central bulge. These clusters are among the oldest objects...

Is it possible that our original home exists as a great collection of stars, a star cluster known as Messier 67 (shown above), a gathering of suns and stellar remnants...

Posted on Jul 29, 2020 in Astronomy, Milky Way Galaxy, Science “In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves,” observed Stephen Hawking....

Posted on Jan 8, 2020 in Astronomy, Science, Space “This is a puny cluster of stars—less than a few thousand in total—but it has big implications beyond its local area...

Posted on Feb 16, 2017 The Phoenix cluster is an enormous accumulation of about 1,000 galaxies, located 5.7 billion light years from Earth. At its center lies a massive galaxy,...

Posted on Feb 16, 2017 The Phoenix cluster is an enormous accumulation of about 1,000 galaxies, located 5.7 billion light years from Earth. At its center lies a massive galaxy,...

NASA’s Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has captured a stunning image of the Rosette Nebula, a star-forming region 5,000 light-years away. This high-resolution image provides detailed insights into the processes of…

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed a rare phenomenon in the Zwicky 8338 (Z8338) galaxy cluster, located 670 million light-years from Earth. Astronomers discovered two streams of superheated gas crossing…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured unprecedented images of star formation in the remote outskirts of the Milky Way, an area known as the Extreme Outer Galaxy. This region,...

Using advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have made a significant discovery of 10 new pulsars in the dense globular cluster Terzan 5, located in the constellation Sagittarius. These findings, resulting from...

This week, skywatchers can look forward to a range of exciting celestial events visible to the naked eye. From planetary alignments to meteor showers, the night sky offers plenty of...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of NGC 5253, a blue compact dwarf galaxy, revealing crucial details about its intense star formation activities. Located approximately 11 million light-years...

An ancient star, named CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36), has been observed moving through space at an astonishing speed of nearly 600 km/second (1.3 million mph). This velocity not only surpasses the...

Posted on Dec 27, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Cosmos, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Magnetic Fields, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Space News, Universe Today’s stories include What...

Posted on Sep 30, 2022 in Science, Science News, Space News Today’s stories include The last planet you’d want to live on to Stunning new Europa pictures beamed home by...

Posted on Jun 18, 2022 in Science “3D data will revolutionize our understanding of star formation in our galaxy by allowing us to chart where stars fall in relation to...

“Finding old stars could also lead to the discovery of new planets. Maybe we can find some ancient civilizations around these old stars,” suggested astrophysicist, Wei-Chun Jao, research scientist at...

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Milky Way Galaxy, Stars Astronomers have found an explanation for the strange occurrence of massive stars located far from their birthplace in...

Posted on Jan 6, 2022 in Astronomy, Science, Stars “The discovery of this exceptional globular cluster remnant will help refine models of the formation of the first stellar structures of...

Posted on Dec 15, 2021 in Science Nobel-Prize laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, for whom NASA’s Chandra Observatory was named, described black holes  as “the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in...

Posted on Nov 15, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Stars Stars are born in nurseries with a collection of siblings that range in mass but share chemical compositions and dynamic histories....

Posted on Nov 8, 2021 in Astronomy, Milky Way Galaxy, Stars Stars are born in nurseries with a collection of siblings that range in mass but share chemical compositions and...

A gravitational wave isn’t a ripple through objects in spacetime; it passes through spacetime itself. Gravitational waves make the Universe itself vibrate, says Brian Clegg, author of Gravitational Waves: How...

“We started asking ourselves why we had not found it earlier, because it’s very extreme in its properties and very bright,” says Michael McDonald, assistant professor of physics in MIT’s...

Posted on Sep 14, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Universe Determining the age of a star can be one of the trickiest measurements an astronomer can make.  Stars don’t obviate their...

A new view of star formation in our home galaxy has revealed some previously hidden secrets. Astronomers using two of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes have made a detailed...

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Science “Our solar system was most likely formed in a giant molecular cloud together with a young stellar cluster, and one or more supernova...

Globular clusters are the oldest visible objects in the Universe – each contains hundreds of thousands to occasionally over one million stars, all born at essentially the same time. They...

Posted on Apr 1, 2021 in Science Something unknown and unseen — a suspected population of ‘dark matter sub-halos’ — has been destroying the stars in the enormous tidal tail...

Posted on Mar 2, 2021 in Astronomy, Milky Way Galaxy, Science The Milky Way is a dynamic museum of ancient merging relics, river-like streams of stars stripped from dwarf satellite...

Posted on Mar 8, 2021 in Cosmos, Milky Way Galaxy, Science, Space, Universe “Cities of Galaxies” –Most Dense Cluster in the Primitive Universe Discovered Ancient Behemoth Galaxies –“Fed by Cosmic...

Posted on Mar 22, 2022 in Astronomy, Galaxies, Science, Universe Ancient galaxy clusters have been described as “the dark skeletons of the cosmos.” Astronomers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de...

Hubble astronomers found something extraordinary at the heart of nearby globular cluster NGC 6397 –a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there instead of one monster, supermassive black hole. Ancient...

One early result of the 2nd release of the still ongoing Dark Energy Survey is the previously untold story revealed by old, giant RR Lyrae (RRL) pulsating stars with a...

Posted on Dec 2, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Science Scientists are questioning if there is any upper size limit to black holes either within or beyond the observable...

Posted on Oct 23, 2020 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Cosmos, Science, Universe It has been said that all the light ever radiated by all the stars that ever existed in the...

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Posted on Aug 4, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Science, Universe “Black holes are the seductive dragons of the universe,” wrote science-fiction author Robert Coover, “outwardly quiescent yet violent at the...

Posted on Aug 31, 2020 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Science, Universe In fall of 2019, astronomers with The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) at the Niels Bohr Institute, discovered an ancient cluster...

Posted on Jul 7, 2020 in Astronomy, Milky Way Galaxy Nyx, a vast new stellar stream discovered in the vicinity of the Sun, named after the Greek goddess of the...

Posted on Jul 6, 2020 in Science, Supernova The oldest planet ever detected in the universe, The PSR B1620-26 system lies around 5,600 light years away in galaxy cluster M4,...

Posted on Jun 4, 2020 in Astronomy, Science New results from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the early Universe took...

On March 2, 2019, astronomers reported discovery of a dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive monster in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, supporting...

If we ever have contact with extraterrestrial life from outside our solar system, it will be intelligent, which may be the only thing we have in common with them. Life...

Posted on Jan 8, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Following the Big Bang a gap of several hundred million years emerged that was filled with darkness– the cosmic dark ages, a...

Posted on Jul 1, 2021 in Astronomy, Milky Way Galaxy, Space “These pristine stars are among the oldest surviving stars in the Universe, and certainly the oldest stars we have...