The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a strikingly mature galaxy that mirrors the structure of our own Milky Way ...

How do globular clusters remain intact for so long? As stars orbit the common center of mass, shouldn't they cross orbits and ...

A star called T Corona Borealis may "go nova" next week, making the star briefly visible to the naked eye. It last happened ...

Using data from the Euclid Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a stunning 2,674 dwarf galaxies, the study of which ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

This week’s small-telescope target is globular cluster NGC 2808 in the southern constellation Carina the Keel. It shines at magnitude 6.2 and has a diameter of 13.8′. That means it covers 20 ...

The constellation Hercules contains two of the finest globular star clusters visible in the Northern Hemisphere: M13 (below) and M92 (not shown -- yet!). Each contains several hundred thousand stars, ...

112, No. 776, October 2000 Spectroscopy of Giant Stars in the Pyxis... Spectroscopy of Giant Stars in the Pyxis Globular Cluster This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. ABSTRACT ...

Barber completed her PhD in physics at Washington State University with a focus in astrophysics, studying globular cluster systems. Before working at NPR, she taught physics and astronomy at ...

have indications on the formation age and the properties of globular clusters, fundamental tracers also for the dark matter content. "By putting together the individual results, like in a puzzle ...